I’m just getting familiar with lemmy fediverse and trying to make my way through it after getting out from reddit. I’m trying out liftoff app for android and I’m seeing way more double posts from different instances from same users. Same content from same users on multiple instances. I thought fediverse supposed to, You post in whatever instance you are and it’ll be shared among all instances. I’m more confused now.
On reflection, I think this might be a good idea, at least to start with: The main rationale within the fediverse for having multiple communities on the same topic is if they have different approaches to moderation (like r/askHistorians vs r/askHistory on reddit). But before new communities have worked out those different approaches—and before users have become familiar with them—we’re all kind of going by trial and error.
If everyone just subscribed and posted to the biggest community and ignored the rest, we’d never get the chance to see which mod teams we prefer. But if we start out posting the same content everywhere, we have the best chance to compare how different communities treat it. Then we can stay subscribed to the communities with the best dynamics, and unsubscribe from the rest.