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I agree with a number of these complaints. I'm migrating over from reddit and I'm having a number of issues similar to what was posted.
Here's my experience.
OK the blackout started, I moved Apollo and Narwall to page 2 of my phone so I don't muscle memory click on them. I google lemmy because that's what people were talking about switching too before the blackout. I get linked to a page that says lemmy is a bunch of instances and it doesn't matter which one you join. ok.... but which one do I join? I goto the instance page and sort by which server has the most users and is in my country. Beehaw it is I guess. Let's sign up. Oh there's a form you have to answer questions about why you fit here and a human is going to approve me (still waiting on that one). Lets see which one has open registration, Lemmy.World. I try registering and it just spins (still does, tried it again today in firefox, safari, and edge). OK well lets keep trying until we get one to work (lemmynsfw.com was the winner at the time and since then I got an account at https://sh.itjust.works).
OK I'm in and I'm on a NSFW instance but I'm looking for technology, news, and politics. OK communities ALL, which technology do I join (Beehaw, lemmy.ml, midwest.social)?
It took me almost a day to get setup and the top search results on the issues I was facing all linked to reddit pages I wasn't going to click on.
I'm setup now and looking forward to things getting sorted out (there will be clear winners we all migrate to). I really don't understand the benefit of being federated. I honestly would prefer a single site that's a nonprofit similar to wikipedia but I'll be using this for now.
The problem with the multiple redundant communities is real, but it's also real on Reddit. It's just that Reddit has been around for much longer and there has been time for everyone to reach a consensus on which community is the real one. And even then there's different ones still. Is it workreform, antiwork, or workabolition you're looking for? Or for something with less of an ideological debate behind the separation, is it tabletopgamedesign or boardgamedesign?
It's a little different than having "news" vs "worldnews" though, right? You could have 20 communities called "news", and they all have different content as I understand it.
Yes, news and worldnews are different things. But the ones I mentioned above are the same thing, different subreddits. Like me_irl and meirl. No reason for there to be two, but there are.
So sure, maybe the Federation thing makes it even more common. But it's not a new problem, and it mostly self corrects. People gravitate to the bigger community. The smaller community will get some strays asking why there is not much movement here, and somebody will reply because we're all at this other place and then the next stray sees the message and doesn't even have to ask.
Additionally if the main community declines in quality I'd expect users to migrate
Yeah, that's a better example. I'm still figuring this out but I've had some trouble connecting to communities on other instances, even though the instances are connected.