I'll toggle from local to all if things are a bit slow, but I generally regret it. The chatter "over there" was that Beehaw is the place to go, and it just happens to run on Lemmy software.
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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Reddit isn't totally free of this problem (feature) either--You can have multiple subreddits dedicated to the same topic.
IMO while the federated communities might feel fragmented if you are used to reddit, it's the main benefit of using Lemmy and something that should be embraced. Concentrating content into only a few instances defeats the point of federation.
Take the current issue as an example: A gigantic community defederated from another gigantic community leading to a comparatively large wall between the content of those communities. Had they been smaller, the impact of this issue would therefore also be smaller. This affects other communities which get content from beehaw as well, since there's now less interaction between a large portion of the fediverse user base.
It's only natural that large communities will bubble to the top however, and there probably isn't a good answer to how to 'balance out' those communities, or if that's even beneficial at all.
Reddit isn’t totally free of this problem (feature) either–You can have multiple subreddits dedicated to the same topic.
True, but there you don't have the problem that you can access subreddit "gamingB" but not "gamingA" because you happen to be logged in on an instance that defederated "gamingA".
You can just access all of the different subreddits with one account and freely choose on which on you'd like to post and always able to see every post ever made in every sub.
With Lemmy as it is now, I don't even know if the posts I see in a community on InstanceA are all posts because there might be posts that are made from people on InstanceB that is blocked by InstanceC that I'm accessing the community of InstanceA with.
I noticed this today when I had a comment chain on lemm.ee with several different users. That chain was >10 posts long, but when I looked into that community with my feddit.de account, I could only see the first two comments of that chain, not even my own lemm.ee comments were visible.
Because the third post of that chain was made by a user on an instance that is blocked by feddit.de and that lead to all following posts also missing.
So now I'm feeling like I'm missing big parts of the comment sections just because I happen to be on an instance that blocked someone that might participate in them.
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I mean, people will naturally flock to the biggest instances.
But if you have even 100 ACTIVE users, they'll "discover" the vast majority of communities for you, after you manually search the most popular communities.