duplicate communities on lemmy instances is not a good trend (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by myself33@beehaw.org to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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what's stopping 8 different instances from hosting a 'politics', 'funny', 'fediverse', community?

these duplicate communities defeat the goal to replace reddit.

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[-] cosmicsploogedrizzle@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago

We are early days. Competition breeds innovation. The best communities will filter to the top

[-] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago

Yes, also what could possibly be the alternative? Federation but with unique community names that transcend what instance you're on? What would be the point?

this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023

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