Sub to all of them and wait for all but one to die out.

Start beef. Survival of the fittest.

I join the biggest one

Subbing to all of them, contributing where I can, and seeing what happens :)

I like the idea of different communities. A single giant "community" like reddit feels too big. Effectively no one can participate and the only content you see is the least common denominator. Ideally we'll continue to see at least a few popular instances and not just conglomerate back to one giant instance. I think what needs to happen though is a better integration of local vs federal instances. There should be a toggle within a certain community page to see versions from other instances. Or a way to merge multiple community posts together.

I just keep an eye on all of them.
Eventually this whole thing will sort itself out and the snowball effect will see some communities get bigger while others fall to the wayside. It's a natural progression.

I’m hoping this gets addressed with a super-community / “multi Reddit” type feature eventually. But that wouldn’t really address how posting works. You would still need to drop it into a single community. But maybe it could encourage spreading content around similar communities.

I choose the one with the most subs. Multiple 'new' posts of the same thing will irk me.

Same thing I did on reddit, use the more popular one.

Because communities on Lemmy are still in their infancy I join all of them (at least the larger ones) and will wait to see which of them gather traction.

I sub to them all, and then order the communities to fight each other. The last community standing is the winner. Surprisingly, none of this has ever happened yet.

They should treat it like hashtags on mastodon.

Anyone can post to a #communityname. Local mods are responsible for content from their instance. If an instance doesn't weed out shit posts, other instances can stop importing its content.

I'm joining all of them for now. I figure eventually I'll have a favourite for each topic and then just keep that one, or maybe I keep them all except the one filled with trolls.

Eventually one will become the biggest/most successful. Give it a bit of time.

Same thing that made, for example, /r/technology bigger than /r/tech on reddit.

Look at their activity, if cannot determin which is the most likely to survive, I sub them all and wait.

Join all of them of course.

I just subscribe to both of them, the more mindless scroll content, the better >:D

I just subscribe to all of them. And I feel it's worth pointing out that this was a thing on Reddit too. I often saw the same post on two or three different subreddits I was subscribed to. Eg. I was subscribed to both CanadaPolitics and Ontario, so Ontario politics stuff often appeared twice. Three times if it was local Ottawa news that made provincial and national headlines.

As a new mod of c/Alberta, the community for the province is much larger on Lemmy.ca.

However, that's also simply because people are more likely to subscribe with how much more focused the instance is on Canada, so it's a given more people will join it.

Honestly, so far, while I've been trying to get the Alberta community here up and running, I have no issue with the one on Lemmy.ca existing. If anything, I hope that the communities can co-exist because perhaps it'll become the case where certain instances will develop their own cultures in the same way some Peertube instances do. We even have the Lemmy.ca communities relating to the province in the community sidebar to encourage people to take advantage of the federated nature of Lemmy.

Offtopic, but how do you search for communities on lemmy? I am facing a bit of trouble getting started. Any help would be really appreciated

Join them all, for now. I think Lemmy desperately needs a mechanism for “meta communities” or something so you can view a merged feed of say “gaming@everywhere” instead of separately seeing “gaming@beehaw” versus “gaming@lemmyworld” …