For the unaware, is a alternative to platforms such as Reddit and Tildes. I've been using Lemmy as one of my main social platforms for the past 6 months...

I made a blog post on my biggest issue in Lemmy and the proposed solutions for it. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

  • macniel@feddit.deEnglish
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    10 months ago

    What about the (non) fictitious problem when you have several (similar) communities dedicated to the same topic on the same instance? What then?

  • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I appreciate the effort, but what is happening is option 1, aka merging of communities, naturally.

    About knowing where to post, you can usually have a look at https://lemmyverse.net/communities, search the community name, and have a good idea of which one is the most active.

    Sometimes different communities can coexist, and that’s fine. !science@mander.xyz and !science@lemmy.world have different audiences, and that’s okay.

    • popcar2@programming.devOPEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I’m aware that people are slowly grouping up to one specific community per topic but I don’t think this means there isn’t an issue with communities being fractured. Using a third party tool to gauge which communities are popular also isn’t a great solution. Just searching Linux shows:

      I don’t think each one of these communities has a different audience. It’s the same audience, but there isn’t an obvious answer for which one to visit or post in.