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Bit much ain't it? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Communities just jumping around all the time. Its getting difficult to keep up.

These are the responsible ones who've managed the move well. Others just add a lil disclaimer in the sidebar.

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[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The solution is to not treat communities like official and unique subreddits.

On Reddit there's the PCGaming subreddit. On Lemmy there are more than five. Subscribe to all, or the most active ones, or the ones you align yourself better with... And that's it, there's no need to be concerned about which individual post goes on which individual community for a topic, it will federate and others will read it just fine.

[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago

The problem with that is that the threadiverse(?) Is still small enough that dividing it in half means you've reduced engagement by far more than that. Let alone having 5 different communities with the same tooic. Piefed handles Cross-Posts way better though so it's less of an issue for me now that it was on Lemmy.

[–] cornshark@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Won't that just lead to 5 of every topic? Also what do you do find new duplicate communities if there were only 4 when you went looking?

[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Won’t that just lead to 5 of every topic?

That happens on Reddit even with singular communities. Sure, maybe some topics will come up multiple times.

Also what do you do find new duplicate communities if there were only 4 when you went looking?

Browse the All feed. See a post you like? Check the community. Not subscribed? Subscribe. Simple.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

That happens on Reddit even with singular communities. Sure, maybe some topics will come up multiple times.

Yeah, but Reddit has a much larger userbase and in some cases it's good that topics can be split across multiple communities. The Fediverse has the opposite problem.