I'm new here, and have been looking into different communities to subscribe to, it's pretty difficult to decide which ones to subscribe to when theres often the same community on more than one server. (Example: internetisbeautiful on @feddit.de, @lemmy.ee, @lemmy.ml)

I'm not super savvy but couldn't they merge them and have the community hosted as mirrors of each other on both for redundancy? If I'm wrong, do correct me, again, not super savvy and also new here.

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[–] Snoopy@piefed.social 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Well, that's part of the decentralisation with its pros and cons. And that's what i enjoy about the Verse (lemmy, mbin, piefed...)

cons : multiple communities with the same name. People are dispersed.
pro : no centralised decision for all the Verse. Several flavor.

You can chose them based on :

the number of comments and posts.
the moderation team by checking the modlog of their community. Do you agree with their value ? How is it managed ?
people. Do you fell well there ? Or do you prefer there ? Only time can tell you :)

Another idea :

Use an app that support multi-communities
Create a Piefed account so you can benefit from multi-community : feed. Create a feed, and put those similar community in one place. On few cross-post, they also regroup comment in one place. It's still a new software but i enjoy it a lot. :)

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 3 points 7 hours ago

The feeds are also (now), in addition to being user customizable, shareable as well. So yes you can create your own, but also you may not have to, and instead just find one already made and maintained by someone else with similar preferences:-).