Say what you will about reddit, at least an established subreddit was the place to gather on the topic, ie r/technology etc.

With Lemmy, doesn’t it follow that similar communities on different instances will simply dilute the userbase, for example !technology@lemmy.ml and !technology@beehaw.org. How do we best use lemmy as a (small c) community when a topic can be split amongst many (large C) Communities?

This is an earnest question, in no way am I suggesting lemmy is inferior to reddit. I’m quite enjoying myself here.

  • Blue@kbin.social
    6·
    2 years ago

    This assumes that power doesn’t corrupt and that the big “kind” communities don’t eventually turn bad.

    • Krusty@feddit.it
      22·
      2 years ago

      That’s exactly the point: if they become “bad”, we can always move to another one with the same name but on another instance

    • scientiam@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      Just to chime in, the other issue is consolidation of these communities by a small handful of people (i.e. powermods).

      They’ve already started doing it here too, trying to grab all the keywords and popular communities (e.g. anime@lemmy.ml) so it’s something to keep note of moving forward too especially as certain instances start to see more growth than others.