Say what you will about reddit, at least an established subreddit was the place to gather on the topic, ie r/technology etc.
With Lemmy, doesn’t it follow that similar communities on different instances will simply dilute the userbase, for example !technology@lemmy.ml and !technology@beehaw.org. How do we best use lemmy as a (small c) community when a topic can be split amongst many (large C) Communities?
This is an earnest question, in no way am I suggesting lemmy is inferior to reddit. I’m quite enjoying myself here.
This assumes that power doesn’t corrupt and that the big “kind” communities don’t eventually turn bad.
That’s exactly the point: if they become “bad”, we can always move to another one with the same name but on another instance
This is such a great feature and advantage.
Just to chime in, the other issue is consolidation of these communities by a small handful of people (i.e. powermods).
They’ve already started doing it here too, trying to grab all the keywords and popular communities (e.g. anime@lemmy.ml) so it’s something to keep note of moving forward too especially as certain instances start to see more growth than others.