For the unaware, Lemmy is a Fediverse alternative to platforms such as Reddit and Tildes. I've been using Lemmy as one of my main social platforms for the pa...

I made a blog post on my biggest issue in Lemmy and the proposed solutions for it. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

  • Landsharkgun@midwest.socialEnglish
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    9 months ago

    As someone used to Old Internet: how is having multiple communities for similar topics a ‘problem’? If you like Overwatch, do you demand that Activision, Steam, and GameFAQs all combine their forums about it? If you like baking, do you demand that all of the hundreds of sites dedicated to it all blob into one? This seems like a very wierd idea to be so definite about.

  • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I appreciate the effort, but what is happening is option 1, aka merging of communities, naturally.

    About knowing where to post, you can usually have a look at https://lemmyverse.net/communities, search the community name, and have a good idea of which one is the most active.

    Sometimes different communities can coexist, and that’s fine. !science@mander.xyz and !science@lemmy.world have different audiences, and that’s okay.

    • popcar2@programming.devOPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I’m aware that people are slowly grouping up to one specific community per topic but I don’t think this means there isn’t an issue with communities being fractured. Using a third party tool to gauge which communities are popular also isn’t a great solution. Just searching Linux shows:

      I don’t think each one of these communities has a different audience. It’s the same audience, but there isn’t an obvious answer for which one to visit or post in.

      • stown@sedd.itEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Id say that the obvious answer is the Linux community with the most members. !linux@lemmy.ml has more than double the number of subscribers of the next most active Linux community.

            • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
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              9 months ago

              The overlap between authoritarians and Linux?

              Well I suppose North Korea does run the closed source RedStarOS.

                • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
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                  9 months ago

                  Because we all know how tankies are, so stop acting coy.

                  Maybe you should go conquer some bread instead of trying to defend maoists and stalinists.