For example, I want to join a Today I learned community but when I search for it, I come across 4 of them on different instances.
What do you guys do when you see this? Join the one with the most users, join all of them?
Because communities on Lemmy are still in their infancy I join all of them (at least the larger ones) and will wait to see which of them gather traction.
Same!
Start beef. Survival of the fittest.
Fuck beehaw. All my homies hate beehaw.
Is this just going along with the other comment, or did beehaw actually do something hate-worthy?
Beehaw is fine, he’s just “starting beef”
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That’s disappointing, I liked Beehaw from what they have posted as their official ideas / methodology. Did they give any reasoning for why sealioning is a bad thing? I can’t think of any reason why asking for evidence could be a bad thing, in fact I’d personally want to encourage it.
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They should treat it like hashtags on mastodon.
Anyone can post to a #communityname. Local mods are responsible for content from their instance. If an instance doesn’t weed out shit posts, other instances can stop importing its content.
I join the biggest one
Sub to the most active one I can find
As a new mod of c/Alberta, the community for the province is much larger on Lemmy.ca.
However, that’s also simply because people are more likely to subscribe with how much more focused the instance is on Canada, so it’s a given more people will join it.
Honestly, so far, while I’ve been trying to get the Alberta community here up and running, I have no issue with the one on Lemmy.ca existing. If anything, I hope that the communities can co-exist because perhaps it’ll become the case where certain instances will develop their own cultures in the same way some Peertube instances do. We even have the Lemmy.ca communities relating to the province in the community sidebar to encourage people to take advantage of the federated nature of Lemmy.
Sub to all of them and wait for all but one to die out.
I just sub to the most popular one assuming it’ll be the one to win out.
Yep. It was the same issue as multiple similar subreddits on reddit.
If there is not already a way to combine communities into a single feed, surely there will be soon.
I feel like the challenge with that is that is going to be moderation. (well, the challenge is always with moderation)
I mean every community moderates itself, if you don’t like what one of them does, you cut it out of your feed.
It sounds exciting, imagine if mods would have to compete for shares of a topic instead of a group gatekeeping a big community.
I’ve been joining all of them. I might pare down if I need to at some point, but I want to try to catch all the discussion on a topic.
I like the idea of different communities. A single giant “community” like reddit feels too big. Effectively no one can participate and the only content you see is the least common denominator. Ideally we’ll continue to see at least a few popular instances and not just conglomerate back to one giant instance. I think what needs to happen though is a better integration of local vs federal instances. There should be a toggle within a certain community page to see versions from other instances. Or a way to merge multiple community posts together.
I like the idea of different communities. A single giant “community” like reddit feels too big
This is a good point. Some users prefer being in a community with a lower number of subscribers. Not everyone wants to post in a community with a million users so having big and small communities for the same thing isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It gives people the choice to decide which one they want to participate in.
That’s actually a great point. Haven’t really done much posting on reddit for the past couple of years but really enjoy the more intimate feel of lemmy atm. We’ll see how it all pans out but I yearn for the old phpbb days of the internet :D
