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How to fight division of the user base? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by sockenklaus@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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If I understand Lemmy correctly, you can create duplicate communities on different instances. Isn't this kinda counter productive because this may lead to less user interaction in those communities, because the user base gets split up between competing communities.

Is there a way to fight this division of the (small) userbase or is this effect even desired because it leads to more tight knit communities on the different instances?

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[–] elonspez@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stop asking this. Reddit has this kind of problem as well but people ultimately sort it out.

[–] Flashback956@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

'Stop asking this' is not a really helpful thing to say. We have a lot of new users, including myself, and everybody is figuring out how Lemmy works. Redundant questions will occur and lets answer those in a respectful manner.

[–] Ghost_Seeker69@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think this is desired. Lemme give my case. I think r/historymemes is absolutely flooded with racism, tankies and neo-nazis, and perhaps more than the rest, colonial apologia. Reddit being centralised, I can't create another r/historymemes.

Say we have a c/historymemes in some instance. The same racism and shit happens. No problem, I can look for a new c/historymemes on some other instance that is better moderated in regards to those problems.

[–] jarredpickles87@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemme give my case.

I see what you did there.

[–] Ghost_Seeker69@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Didn't intend to do that, but hey...

[–] godless@latte.isnot.coffee 1 points 1 year ago

Why fight it? If they want 3 different asklemmy instances, let them. Eventually users will flock to the most active one, or there will be parallel ones. Then it's on you to either join all or stick to whichever one you feel most welcome at.