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It's not bad, but there are a couple of issues that concern me. One is that communities are fractured - that is, that communities about the same topics exist on different instances and don't connect with each other.
So I'm subscribed to a Books community on one instance, but that doesn't mean I'll see any of the posts on the same topic on other instances unless I subscribe to each of them. The total community of users on Lemmy who are interested in books are split up into small groups on different instances.
That's very limiting.
Of course there's also the issue of the relatively small user base overall. For some purposes a small community may be preferable, but for many others you really need a large user base. Looking for gamers for a face to face tabletop RPG, for example. Without a large user base, the odds of finding people within a reasonable real world distance of you is virtually nil.
I think the fracturing of communities will sort itself out with time.
Even within reddit there has always been multiple communities per niche before one floats to the top.
I think the main issue with that is reducing the barrier between instances so that its easier for people to find the large communities
I agree with this. I'm not worried about that fracturing because it's also pretty common on reddit. IE: the r/nba sub alone has more than a couple of spin-off subs.
The difference is that you can just sub to them all easily and get all their content. It's much harder on the Fediverse because you need to go to a lot more effort to do so and there is a lot of junk communities with few posts out there.
Now if there was a clean, easy and fast way to sift though all the crud across multiple servers at once that would make a huge difference.
I don't see a lot of difference in terms of effort in searching for communities between here and reddit. I'm on Jerboa and I tried searching "teachnology" and "science." The communities with the same and similar names popped up. That's how I did it when I first got here and that's how I do it in reddit. If I wanted to, say, join an anime sub all I have to do is search (for example) anime then tap the sub. There's a huge subscribe button ther (I just tried it since I'm nkt subbed to that yet).
I have't come across crazy mods/admins yet so I can't comment on that. Which subs have them?