When I look at https://lemmy.ml/c/startrek vs https://kbin.social/m/startrek I see two entirely different lists of posts. Why? It’s the same topic, just on different instances. How can we have communities about topics without having them siloed into their own instance-based communities? Is this just related to that 0.18 issue with Lemmy/kbin not talking nicely, or is this how the Fediverse is?
Is it (at least theoretically) possible for me to post an article on https://kbin.social/m/startrek and have it automatically show up on https://lemmy.ml/c/startrek, or are they always going to be two separate communities?
The suckiness of Reddit’s admins is adversely affecting the content. It’s preventing me from browsing it with my chosen tools, it’s crippling the ability of mods to keep their big giant communities running, and so forth.
I’ve come to the Fediverse to see content that’s free of those restrictions. Unlike you, I don’t see inherent value in having millions and millions of people subscribed to a given community. Small communities can still have plenty of interesting content. And these small communities are growing, if there’s not enough content to your tastes right now then you can either contribute some or come back in a while to see if there’s more.
The earlier suggestion about multireddit-like functionality helps, too, by splicing together the content of multiple smaller communities. At the user’s discretion.
Oh, the irony.
Then you go to a different community. On the Fediverse it’s super easy. As I’ve been saying.
I don’t really get why the size of a community even matters beyond a certain point. As we’ve seen with default subs, vs more niche alternatives, communities generally go to shit once they get too big.
It’s because below a certain threshold the amount of content posted is low. I don’t think you can argue that a news sub is worse off for having more people posting news as it happens.