I’m a fairly new users, but I feel that navigating around the fediverse is a bit cumbersome, maybe the wrong word for it. But there is a lack of overview in a way. I enjoy being on this server, but I also like to follow other communities. Lots of different topics, everything from cars to Linux to architecture.
Right now there are 10 (that I could find on browse.feddit.de) instances named Linux on different server. So the small number of Linux users using some fediverse instance is spread around over many servers. Coming from reddit, things were far from perfect over there, but there is only r/Linux. It’s a shame users are spread so thin all over the place.
I used Linux as an example, I’ve seen the same “problem” for other topics as well. Anyways, just my perspective as a new users. Hope this wasn’t too much of a rant, maybe we can look at this as an issue where the fediverse can improve.
I don’t see this as a problem at all. The internet has always been this way. If there was one singular Linux community in the Fediverse and you had to go there to discuss the topic, you’d just have Reddit. And Reddit already exists.
It also happens on Reddit too. There’s like 3 AITA subs, a few subs for Making a Murderer because I guess someone had some issues with the mods of the original one being a cop or something.
I don’t see anything different with lemmy honestly, but it would be nice to have the option to kind of merge into bigger ones. I imagine that’s in the roadmap at some point.
the centralization of people also was a more recent thing. I remember specialized smaller forums and websites used to be more popular when I was younger. hell even earlier with GeoCities people had their homepage and blogs.
and even with discord and twitter people had their own small groups that may seem “redundant”.
yep - we could use better tools to navigate the Fediverse, but this is 100% the intended nature of the platform.