I come from Reddit and been enjoying Lemmy so far. How is Lemmy dealing with multiple communities on the same topic? To me:

  • If the communities are all active, then I shall subscribe to all of them, but end up having lots of duplicate/similar posts on my feed
  • If there is one community that is dominating, then what is the point of federation?

I was subscribed to [email protected], and just because I actively went into it, I saw a post that the community was frozen and they decided to use another android community on a different server, to avoid fragmentation.

  • BURN@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Tbh I do want an algorithm to make decisions for me. It’s something I’m missing a ton from Reddit/Twitter.

    Discoverability is shit on this site. It’s like that because there’s no other option in the current system, but I fully believe federation won’t ever take off mainstream because it’s decentralized.

    • habanhero
      3·
      1 year ago

      100% agree discoverability can be improved but I think algorithms are basically the antithesis of the Fediverse.

      And it’s totally okay if Lemmy or other Fediverse apps never takes the “mainstream”. I’m totally onboard with it not going down the road of Reddit.

      • HeartyBeast@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        This wouldn’t be an algorithm. This would be the moderators of ‘tadpoles’ on someinstance.social deciding they would also like to display content from ‘tadpoles’ on someotherinstance.xyz

        • habanhero
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’m speaking for myself but I’m not sure if I want moderators making that decision. What you are suggesting is moderators will decide if you as an user should see content from another community, whether you asked to or not.

          I mean if I want to see both subs I would just sub to both. I would not want moderators or algorithms making that decision for me, at all.