This is what I mean…Left is tchncs.de, right is Lemmy.ml

Edit: Also, trying to access those communities that don’t appear in the search result for specific instance, gives this message

404: couldnt_find_community

  • seikoshadow@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    How is this expected to become popular if you need to go through all of that? I figured I could just search for a topic then subscribe, but if they’re all separate then surely they’ll all just become segmented with time and contain duplicate communities in many cases?

      • DarkwinDuck@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        Strongly agree on this one. If there’s already multiple gaming communities. Popular topics might have multiple communities on multiple instances very soon and that’s confusing for people.

        • lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org
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          1 year ago

          I think it could be a good thing overall

          each community might have a different culture so you can choose which to participate in

          like r/gaming vs. r/games on reddit

          both are ‘gaming’ communities but are not really the same in content

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            1 year ago

            As long as it is like that, i would agree. But i fear there might be competing communities that are mostly similar. Might be that through Darwinian selection at one point the fittest community survives but until then it might get confusing.

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              yeah I’ll be interested to see how it all plays out starting on the 12th, and especially after July 1st

              we will likely see multiple communities vying to be ‘top dog’ in their respective specialties

              as far as I can tell this really isn’t a problem for other federated software like Mastodon because people just use hashtags over there instead of defined communities with rules like reddit/lemmy where people ‘join’ and generally hang out

              either way I’m excited to see what happens

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        1 year ago

        I disagree. I still prefer Twitter to mastodon even though I only use mastodon these days. I do already feel at home here on lemmy though even though I’ve only been here a day.

    • Knighthawk 0811@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      popularity is actually the solution to this specific problem. as things get more popular they will have been loaded up already.

      you’re only able to have this issue at all because it’s new

    • Kichae@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Ok, but question: If anyone can start up a Lemmy server, how do you expect existing servers to know about the new ones without someone explicitly making the connection?

      There’s no central Lemmy mainframe that every server is connected to. There are no hardwired or mandatory connections, and there shouldn’t be. I’m the face of that, what alternative solution do you propose?

    • bdonvr@lemmy.rogers-net.com
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      1 year ago

      Only the very first user to subscribe/search for a new community needs to do this. It’ll just appear for everyone else on that instance from then on.

      And the devs are working on a solution to make this happen more automatically.

      Segmentation was a problem on Reddit too. Anyone could make a sub with a similar name to compete with another. Users on lemmy will probably slowly gravitate towards one or two big communities for each topic. It’s just early days.

      • seikoshadow@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        I think it’s quite an important point that it only needs to happen once. I’ve not seen that mentioned anywhere else so thank you