Yet another lemmy instance proudly hosted in Montreal, Canada. Still need to get a icon created, if there are any designers here who would like to contribute please feel free to post!

  • pillow@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Thank you! Tuning in from east coast USA. Does the Lemmy community overall have a plan for the inevitable dupe communities across instances?

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      1 year ago

      Just joined from the Mid-Atlantic portion of the 95 corridor myself!

      I’d love for someone else to chime in with an answer to your question, because that’s something I’ve been wondering myself. I’m pretty sure the general plan in a federated ecosystem is “one of them will become more active, becoming the ‘main’ one”, i.e. it’s an intended feature not an issue. I’m interested to see how that fragmentation might impact an already small user base.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, been trying to learn Rust & Typescript to contribute towards a multireddit feature, but it’s definitely an uphill struggle. I’m out of my depth.

        Overall though, the fragmentation is mainly just users trying to make this “Reddit 2.0” instead of letting it develop more naturally, and spamming new communities like mad.

        In terms of actually active subreddits with actual users & posts & whatnot, which of these 5 is the “real” technology subreddit?

        /r/Tech /r/Technology /r/TechNews /r/Computing /r/TechSupport

        I could continue, but there’s a lot more. I don’t think most redditors understand how fragmented everything is.