Example, Lemmy.ml and Lemmy.world have aren’t connected at all. So we are artificially isolating groups more and making it confusing for would be converts.
Short and too the point
Lemmy.ml seems to have a clone of most of the “top reddits”, somehow the most subscribed communities out there, and all dominated by one or two posters who post pro-China/pro-DPRK/anti-Western content all day long.
It definitely is going to confuse newcomers and make a bad first impression. I wonder if they auto subscribe people to those so their propaganda ends up at the top of the communities list.
Part of the solution is to better inform new users the part of the community name is the host, just like Main St in one city is different from Main St in another city. You choose the city you want to live in first.
But, it may also be interesting to have the ability for admins to selectively merge like-named communities with other agreeable instance admins, and count subscribers to both as one group.
gigachad@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Most of the time one community comes out as the strongest contester and then that one is mainly used. But people can also use communities on others instances, for example if they don’t agree with moderation. When I started on Lemmy 2 years ago I was also skeptical of this concept, but now I see it as a perk. Regarding the duplicated communities on lemmy.ml, just instance block ml and you are fine.
Sackeshi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
While I can see why people might prefer it that way, we are preventing communities from growing and allowing people to find communities who might want to switch from Reddit. If you prefer the UI of one to another now you have to create a brand new community which is going to take time to fill. I use old.lemmy.world because I like the old reddit UI
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
I think there’s a misunderstanding?
You can use remote communities, for example: !linux@lemmy.ml for you is old.lemmy.world/c/linux@lemmy.ml