the whole fediverse requires a more effort on your part than reddit ever did. i hate reddit now and left permanently, but i know that the fediverse will never be able to replace reddit and reddit will continue to flourish.

No, you choose which ones the best for you.

Just let it settle organically.

Pretty much, but i I think as the apps and front ends mature, we’ll be able to set up personal “multireddits.” I don’t mind signing up for the multiple communities because I understand why or is that way. However, do think the instances are forming more from simple load distribution and less from the types of deep seated shared interests that may have been predicted. The result is that there are more communities than expected that might benefit from being "collated", but that will be a pretty personal decision.

• !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
• !nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca
• !NoStupidQuestions@kbin.social
• !nostupidquestions@lemmy.ml

can you subscribe to all of them? yes. do you have to? No. Lemmy is still new, overtime people will gravitate to particular ones and the others will wither away

isn't activitypub stuff basically open?
so you could create or comission your own platform/ interface that can synthesize posts from all sorts of places and could even do things about duplicates?

thats the benefir of the open source data model and apis - someone can probabledevlop the features you want - eventually.

the current platforms probably all look a bit like pre existing forums / aggregators or social media . butthats just a starting pont, the future could be much weirder ways of compiling displaying and creating posts. and in theory it can all interoprate (within reason, and outwith federation blocks)

i probably have no idea what i'm talking about though . . . i've certainly not even queried a single activitypub api personally

have to

Why would you think that?

Can we get some multicommunities that can include some of most active for a given community across whichever instance they're in that can be subscribed to at once?

Or does that feature exist already and I just don't know about it? There were multireddits before. Not quite the same use case, but similar concept.

You don't have to. You can. You can also only subscribe to one of them. Did you subscribe to every single subreddit covering a specific or non specific topic? Is it an issue that you get content from ~4 different communities / magazines of similar content? Why make it harder than it is?

If you want them all I guess.

Its a downside but also a power.

For example, if No Stupid Questions@kbin.social tomorrow decides to add a rule "No Post about cats" there are still others you can subscribe to that won't have that rule

Nope, you don't have to subscribe to any of them actually. Look, I'm not subbed to either nsq and I'm good.

You can, but eventually most people will likely congregate in the 1-2 most active ones.

No, you don't have to subscribe to any of them, much less all of them.

There's gong to be multiples with a given name because they each exist on their own instance. Instances are mini reddits that can talk to each other, not the same site.

You want redundancy, it's one of the biggest benefits of federation and decentralization.