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How to fight division of the user base? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by sockenklaus to c/[email protected]

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If I understand Lemmy correctly, you can create duplicate communities on different instances. Isn't this kinda counter productive because this may lead to less user interaction in those communities, because the user base gets split up between competing communities.

Is there a way to fight this division of the (small) userbase or is this effect even desired because it leads to more tight knit communities on the different instances?

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[–] elonspez 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Stop asking this. Reddit has this kind of problem as well but people ultimately sort it out.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

'Stop asking this' is not a really helpful thing to say. We have a lot of new users, including myself, and everybody is figuring out how Lemmy works. Redundant questions will occur and let's answer those in a respectful manner.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. I was subbed to both meirl and me_irl without issue

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair they are very different subs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Eh, I guess I was just a casual viewer bc it all seemed the same to me. Never went to the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit does not have the problem in the exact same way. To have to articulate the nuance would be exhausting and clearly not productive. Please continue to ask that question until this community has a valid answer.

[–] elonspez -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for your answer with zero contribution. Reddit and lemmy may not have the problem in the exact same way, but they are effectively the same. Whether it's r/technology vs. r/tech or [email protected] vs. [email protected] doesn't matter to normal users.