this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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I think I'm getting the hang of it, I'm just concerned it won't ever get to the point of having as many in depth communities as Reddit, because that's what I like most about Reddit
I do too, but I feel like it won't because the whole federated thing makes it a bit difficult to grasp and seems very fragmented overall. Right now lemmy has less users than a single "small" subreddit. We'll have to wait.
In the longer-term, we're more likely to see the opposite problem. The in-depth communities are going to be niche by definition, and interested users will be fragmented across similar communities on different instances. 100 different groups of 10, instead of a single group of 1000.
But those "groups of 10" are much more pleasant than Reddit has been for years. That could change in the future, but for now there's passion and enthusiasm wherever you look.
Smaller groups means less activity, though. And that's what's keeping communities alive.
I already wrote it in another comment, but I think subs should not be under instances in the hierarchy, but on the same level.
Yeah, we need subs that can exist on multiple instances at the same time. Two subs on different instances should be to link up so all posts are shared between the two, and that they have the same mod team.
So you’re not suggesting that all subs/communities would work like this but it could be a option right, a “cross-community” if you will, that is mirrored across different instances like a raid partition or something like that? Could be interesting!
Exactly. And just have the two communities sync to each other using ActivityPub. I haven't worked with fediverse code before, but it seems like it would work.