For example, are you in [email protected], [email protected], AND [email protected]?
Several, and thank you for making me aware of those in the OP, I was until now only subscribed to one of them.
How many times do I have to answer this question!?
Until you’ve answered in every asklemmy community.
Yes
Yep.
Looking forward to multi-community support on Lemmy.
It won’t fix the issue of comments being everywhere though. Take this post I made on [email protected]. The same link has been crossposted to 7 other communities with many more comments. I wonder if in the future it’ll be possible to combine comments from various posts about a single link into a megapost of some sort.
Yes, and I’ve even cross-posted from one community to another trying to reach more help when I asked a question in the Linux help communities.
Yes
Yep. There’s not really enough content in a lot of single Instance communities, but when you sign up for all of them it gets to a reasonable degree of activity.
When I started on Lemmy after the Reddit exodus, I started by browsing by All, subscribing to communities that looked interesting, and blocking communities that I didn’t want to see. I figured I’d eventually move to browsing by Subscribed, but more than a year later and I still browse by All. Removing the communities I didn’t want to see, especially the overly prolific meme communities, and blocking the posting bots has made browsing New just fine.
So I guess I see duplicate communities assuming there are posts and I haven’t blocked them.
it’s not a bug, it’s a feature, also, it’s not a bug, it’s a feature
Also, a bug it is not - but a feature.
A bug it is not, a feature it is.
A feature—a bug, is it not?
Yeah, why wouldn’t I be?
It’s nice for viewing, but it can convolute posting. Which one do I post do? Do I cross post? Not a huge issue but still a bit annoying
Agreed. I don’t cross post. The community with the most membership or activity gets my posts, unless there’s a good reason to to support another community.
Cross posting to identical communities doesn’t improve the usability of Lemmy.
IMO that is one of the biggest issues with lemmy. If you make one post then potentially 1/3 of people see it. If you cross post it to all communities then lemmy shitty algorithm likes to put all 3 posts right next to each other and that gets annoying fast. Then if someone makes a comment on community As post, but you only picked Bs post then now you miss out.
“Duplicate”/competing communities is not a unique thing to Lemmy or the fediverse. Reddit had multiple competing communities for the same topic–different management.
Just apply the same rules.
yes.
Yes. I’d really like [email protected] to be the main one but for right now I’m subbed to all 3 I think
yes
I’m in a few but as a general rule I try to avoid most of the ml instance communities because some of them can be a bit on the toxic side.
Generally I stick with the ones that are on the same server as my account i.e. [email protected] on my lemmy.world account and [email protected] on my programming.dev account with exceptions to ones where I don’t have presence on that instance, or I have limited purpose of having an account there (i.e. my lemmy.blahaj.zone account only serves to moderate the Aroace and Agender communities), in which case I usually choose the one which has been most reliable. Part of the reason I did it this way was because in the early days when Lemmy.world had load issues and was being DDoSed federation would have a lot of issues,
