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submitted 1 year ago by blitzen@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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.

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[-] RadDevon@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

My way of dealing with it is to subscribe to all instances of the community so I don't miss anything. If I feel ownership of the community, I would encourage others in the community to do the same.

[-] Dalinar@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 year ago

The problem with that is duplicate threads about every popular thing.

[-] Badoker@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago

You get reposts all over the place on Reddit too, this isn't going to be anything new.

[-] RadDevon@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

It's the price I pay if I want to honor my FOMO. I can always pick one and live with potentially missing some things or not seeing comments from some community members who picked a different instance if I want to prioritize avoiding multiple threads instead. You'd get duplicate posts on a single subreddit anyway, so it doesn't seem that much different.

this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2023
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