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I dislike the idea of multiple communities for the same topic spread across multiple instances. Sure, you can subscribe to multiple communities, but that's just extra overhead. I'm hopeful reddit backs down after the protest (as unlikely as it may be), but either way I will probably go back to using it regardless. Social media is about content, and unless there is a dramatic shift away from reddit being the content hub that it currently is, nothing else will be as useful.
There is a good chance users will flock to the biggest one and we won't have the doubling issue.
Yes, that probably right. But it also goes against one of the supposed benefits of the Fediverse. Which makes the whole distributed system thing a bit pointless.
Eh, Mastodon is currently 80% of the Fediverse. Lemmy today just moved above 100,000 users -- which is a big deal, but it's no Mastodon. Even if everyone on Lemmy congregates to one server, that's more diversity for the Fediverse.