Title is a bit of a loaded question but I tried to fit it into one sentence.
Do you think Lemmy’s search and use functions are hurt by all the communities that were made and abandoned during the 2023 Redditfugee influx? As in, do you think that Lemmy would be better off if some of these communities were consolidated into larger general pages until it gets a big enough user base to warrant individual communities for specific TV shows, for example.
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The main issue is that different people prefer different approaches based on instances
All of them are valid, but those different views prevent merging the communities
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Lemmy.world has most of those because it’s the biggest instance. If size is what you want, that’s probably where you should look.
If your instance is kbin not mbin, when you search communities it probably doesn’t give you the real subscriber numbers, only number who subscribed from your instance. You should look at number of posts to get a better idea.
Mbin fixed this I think.
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@SamXavia yeah, I think it’s what you’re looking for in terms of being closer to the reddit defaults.
You’re never going to get all of us to agree to close smaller communities and flock to the biggest, because the strength of federation is decentralization and for some of us it’s important to have communities on more than one instance.
For example the biggest movies community is on Lemmy.world, Kbin has one, and Lemm.ee has a sort of hybrid one with television mixed into it. Then as you can see from the Kbin collections page there are little niche ones about film frames, trailers, etc.
If lemmy.world goes down there are still plenty of places to go.
I think bigger niche communities are going to form organically over time and the anxiety we see is just growing pains as people get their heads around federation.