As I pointed in the thread, I personally think that having some consolidated core communities would be a better solution for content discovery, information being posted only once, and overall community activity.

One of the examples of the issue of having two (or more) exactly similar Fediverse communities (!fediverse@lemmy.world and !fediverse@lemmy.ml ) is that is leads to

people having to subscribe to both to see the content
posters having to crosspost to both
comment being spread across the crossposts instead of having all of the discussion and reactions happening in the same place.

I am very well aware of the decentralized aspect of Lemmy being one of its core features, but it seems that it can be detrimental when the co-existing communities are exactly the same.

We are talking about different news seen from the US or Europe, or a piece of news discussed in places with different political orientations.

The two Fediverse communities look identical, there is no specific editorial line. The difference in the audience is due to the federation decisions of the instances, but that's pretty much it, and as the topic of the community is the Fediverse itself, the community should probably be the one accessible from most of the Fediverse users.

What do you think?

Also, as a reminder, please be respectful in the comments, it's either one of the rules of the community or the instance. Disagreeing is fine, but no need to be disrespectful.

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[–] Clymene@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don’t understand these “That’s just how the world is. Shame on you for discussing it” comments. I think it is very much worth discussing this, even if the conclusion of the discussion is that it’s not worth changing after all.

You point out similar dynamics on Reddit, but it’s obviously not exactly the same. The design of Reddit is such that there is a much stronger tendency for main communities to arise. By contrast, lots of smaller communities on Lemmy look like ghost towns, where they would be much healthier if they combined numbers. “You’re free to do whatever” doesn’t address the systemic issue.

That said, I don’t think this is obvious either way. There are tons of benefits to the current system too. That’s why it’s worth coming back to this topic every once in a while. If these sorts of nitty gritty design discussions bore you, why are you on this community?

[–] infyrin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Just like there are IRL boomers, now we've got armchair internet boomers who's gotta go around "telling it like it is" and we've just seen this example. Yeah I disagree with the whole 'that's how the world is' rhetoric, because it sounds like whomever it comes from, tells me that individual doesn't like the idea of change or progress. Like, we should all just continue eating this shit sandwich to appease their little cynical perspectives on life, the world and society.

Screw that, they can sit there and be bitter about everything around them. We'll leave them in the dust.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for your comment.

[–] ZodiacSF1969@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol what fucking idiot downvoted this

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I stopped being upset with downvotes a while ago.

Lemmy is nicer than Reddit, but people are still going to downvote for no reason

[–] ZodiacSF1969@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeh I don't care either, I just find it funny that most Lemmy users hold themselves out as some how 'better' than reddit, yet they engage in exactly the same dumb behaviors that make reddit a terrible place.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Definitely. I know heavy moderation is usually frowned upon, but I think Beehaw are doing something interesting with keeping the discussions "nice"