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For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience?
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this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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Yeah, it is kind of confusing for the average user why there is a !Technology@lemmy.ml and a !Technology@beehaw.org community. If you subscribe to both you will see topics twice. If you subscribe to only one you can miss things out.
Ah, so do you literally see the same exact posts twice if you do that? Super annoying but filtering duplicates in the background seems like something that could be easily fixed (unless I'm missing something). Hopefully more interest will lead to more open source contributors!
No, that's not what I meant :-).
For example:
It's like there is an r/technology and an r/tech with only small differences. Hopefully they'll either become more different or somehow merge
This is what I think people need to understand. This problem also occurred on Reddit frequently. In the early days there were multiple subreddits for a single topic and over time with growth, one of them won out. I doubt lemmy.ml and beehaw.org's technology communities are both going to grow at the same rate. Eventually one will get bigger faster and become the de facto tech community.
The only problem I find with this approach is that it will favour the "main" instances, thus recentralizing the app.
I don't even think it's an approach so much as an inevitability that certain communities will grow and develop into the de facto ones for their respective subjects. Especially because people are attracted to communities where they can find more discussions. But yeah, I really hope the communities don't all just end up pooling in the largest instance. Hopefully they grow and develop across many smaller instances.