Honestly it's a good thing that communities are able to replicate as many times as they want. which ones is the "offical" one is just a matter of people settling down after a while
It can be a little annoying, like when Sync announced that they're doing an app for lemmy, and then your whole homepage becomes "Sync for lemmy is happening!!!" BUT the upshot to that is a ridiculous amount of redundancy. If a community mod or instance admin goes on a power trip they can have an iron grip on their little corner of the fediverse, but nowhere else. They won't be able to stop the signal unless they decide to go nuclear and defederate which seems to be a taboo and option of last resort.
edit: stupid brain got the app name wrong
People act like Reddit only had one cats sub. Or as if there was only one forum on the whole web that was about Linux. Is there only one channel on YT that covers iPhone?
Like why exactly is it a problem there is a bunch of comms with roughly the same concept? Subscribe to all of them, post to the biggest one or to whichever you want. Big friggin deal.
Besides the majority of people only lurk anyway.
"We only need one official sub!!" — Average Kbin/Lemmy newb
"First time?" — Average Linux distro enjoyer.
I honestly find it crazy how so many people actively demand that competition and choice should be minimized and are breaking down at the thought they might need to follow more than just a single source of information.
If you think about it... That's scary.
It's true that there were multiple subs for the some topic but there's always one that is "the main", usually the one with the most obvious name. Say /r/gaming. Not the only sub about gaming but that one was huge. You subbed to gaming and you were done
Here I subbed to [email protected], then I get defederated for no reason. I subscribe to [email protected], no big deal. Now it seems like, [email protected] is getting some serious traction. Fragmentation is a serious problem. Yes, I can subscribe to all of them but I also have to constantly be checking if a newer community is out there. The search function is also quite bad :/
Hopefully in time this will sort itself out.
But the subs with obvious names like r/gaming were also absolutely useless especially if you wanted to ask something, because they'd get a thousand posts a minute so your post would ether get buried immediately, deleted by mods for no reason, or, if posted a stupid meme or catgirl in a bikini, go viral with a trillion upvotes and 500 years of premium from the awards.
So you'd end up going to a niche sub anyway.
Yea there are issues here and there, but understand that 95% of Lemmy users and the whole network have only been around for 3 weeks. Of course there will be birthing pains, especially if everyone just expects a 1:1 Reddit replacement.
but I also have to constantly be checking if a newer community is out there
No you don't. That's your choice. You don't have to get every single piece of news instantly. The news that was posted to the brand new community you don't know about will make it to the communities you are subbed to after some time.
Hopefully in time this will sort itself out
It will. Smaller communities will either die off or find a specific niche not covered by larger communities. Also, users will give up on trying to see everything and just curate a feed that can keep up with.
I actually subbed to one of the smaller ones because I liked the content better with fewer people. I think /r/games instead of /r/gaming
But for some more niche things having people more spread out is certainly not ideal, but like you said I think that will sort itself out over time.
I swear so many of these arguments against moving to lemmy have 0 thought put into them.
Wait, maybe its better that they have these qualms then...
Could have went for the low hanging fruit.
These are starwarsmemes. It's all low hanging fruit.
😂
I think that, in time, some types of communities will naturally coalesce around some of the larger communities. It's nice, though, that there can be multiple communities aimed at the same content but with different moderation teams.
I mean, the same was true with Reddit. The only difference here is that communities can have the exact same name so long as they're on a different instance.
Agreed, the communities will start to naturally merge once one is more active and others begin to get less so.
Reddit already had multiple communities for the same topics. I don’t know why people are acting like this is exclusively a fediverse thing.
200,000 Star Wars Memes communities so far, with another 1,000,000 well on its way.
(p.s. sorry about the inaccurate quote, it's been a while since I watched all six Star Wars movies in one sitting.)
I mean - so did Reddit. So many subreddits are the same with extremely similar names & topics but some rise up with lots of subscribers and some don't, staying smaller, and some just never take off and die.
There's no stopping me from starting r/awww, r/awwww, and r/awwwww to compete with r/aww if they are available.
I imagine it’ll consolidate over time. But I don’t know if it’s better or worse to have one gigantic community or many small ones about the samething
There's no such thing as too many communities.
There's just people who want to be able to just go to one great big content trough and stuff themselves full of whatever swill happens to be there at the moment.
More communities implies the existence of more posters
