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Honestly I'm kind of struggling with the concept. I'm using the connect android app but it's just not clicking for me.. how do I know if I've found the right community? On Reddit there was only one /r/gaming but when i search on lemmy I get lots of small communities all for the same thing across different instances. Am I misunderstanding how this works? This must be how my parents felt when i first tried explaining Reddit to them 5 years ago
I have the same problem. I dont mind the app, it's similar enough to RIF, but the fragmented communities are confusing, especially since they already are much smaller than their reddit counterparts. I mostly subscribed to specific and thus less populated content, like certain games and had no interest in the big places like r/gaming, but the comparable lemmies I found look fairly empty.
Then again, I would argue that right now most users are still on the fence and only early adopters made the switch, I'm curious to see how it'll evolve within the next 6-12 months.