So much talk about duplicate communities, which is just so weird to me, seeing as reddit also constantly has duplicate communities despite being centralized :D which one the main one is also sometimes changes based on events/drama

Seems to me just people being resistant to change just because it's change.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I remember duplicate communities seemed like it would be a problem, until you experience it and realise it's actually a feature of the fediverse.

I was just so used to the centralised mentality. I honestly have a hard time putting myself back in that headspace…

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago

Thank you!

It doesn't take that many people to create an active forum. It takes even fewer to make for an active sub-forum. And it's so easy to pull in content from elsewhere here if you want to discuss it with your little group.

The push towards centralizing Lemmy has always seemed like an artifact of people not actually wanting to leave Reddit, but drawing a line in the sand anyway.

[–] maplebar@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Duplicate communities are a good thing anyway.

It's crazy that on Reddit a community can get hijacked by some fucking weirdo who has control of things basically forever.

[–] PlantJam@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's also my biggest complaint, but I avoid it by just browsing local all.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When you search for a community just pick the biggest one. Really all there is to it. Honestly reddit had the same issue with similarly named subs

[–] PlantJam@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

My point is that I don't search for or subscribe to communities, though. Instead I browse all and mute communities I'm not interested in. This is much harder to do on global all.

In my view this isn't a problem that needs to be fixed, it's just something new users have to get used to.

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah but that's what I'm saying, this happens in exactly the same way on Reddit too

[–] arschflugkoerper@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just attempting to go to /r/anime for example ist still a lot easier tho.

I‘m not saying you can’t get used to it, but its obviously something thats worse. Especially if the whole federation thing is new for them.

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Meh, just go to /r/anime_titties for the main global news source subreddit...

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

I like that the top comment went from “there are too many communities I want just one” to “Im joining to make it better for others”.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah I don't get it at all. It's a non-issue.

Unless you have a reason to otherwise just search for the topic you want and pick the biggest. Just. Like. Reddit.

On Reddit there's tons of very similar named communities out there it's fine.