Just starting to familiarize myself with everything after about a decade at reddit. I understand that you can view content across instances but I’m noticing that both kbin and lemmy have similar (competing?) magazines/communities.

For example @PCGaming and !pcgaming (lemmyworld) but then there is also, @pcgaming, !pcgaming@lemmy.ca, etc.

Do I have to subscribe to all of them? Or are there “official” fediverse communities?

As I said, I’m still trying to figure things out, but subscribing to so many similar communities seems cumbersome for the user and (imo) fragments userbases that are literally talking about the same thing.

Thanks in advance!

  • Ragnell@kbin.social
    45·
    1 year ago

    I’m subscribing to all and I’ll just unsubscribe if it turns out I don’t like them. For overlapping ones I haven’t seen many duplicate threads. If I post, though, I’ll stick to one and right now I’m favoring the one on my instance.

    • patchw3rk@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      @Ragnell

      I created /m/BestOf on kbin to kind of avoid having multiple instances of all. I wonder why other communities don’t try to represent all of the Fediverse instead of just their instances…?

      • Rhapsody@kbin.social
        6·
        1 year ago

        Because people aren’t used to the idea of the fediverse and are ultimately treating their instance as a monolithic entity, when that’s not the case.

      • Ragnell@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        I actually like the idea of duplicate communities, because well… Let’s say you want to talk Sherlock Holmes.

        Well, some people don’t want to discuss BBC Sherlock. Others don’t want to discuss whether or not he’s queer. And some want to discuss neither.

        So to accommodate everyone, you WILL need 3 communities anyway. They may as well be on separate instances, so that if one goes down or isn’t very active you can at least discuss the stuff that’s allowed there.