This is what I mean…Left is tchncs.de, right is Lemmy.ml

Edit: Also, trying to access those communities that don’t appear in the search result for specific instance, gives this message

404: couldnt_find_community

      • seikoshadow@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        How is this expected to become popular if you need to go through all of that? I figured I could just search for a topic then subscribe, but if they’re all separate then surely they’ll all just become segmented with time and contain duplicate communities in many cases?

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            1 year ago

            Strongly agree on this one. If there’s already multiple gaming communities. Popular topics might have multiple communities on multiple instances very soon and that’s confusing for people.

            • lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org
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              1 year ago

              I think it could be a good thing overall

              each community might have a different culture so you can choose which to participate in

              like r/gaming vs. r/games on reddit

              both are ‘gaming’ communities but are not really the same in content

          • couragethebravedog@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            I disagree. I still prefer Twitter to mastodon even though I only use mastodon these days. I do already feel at home here on lemmy though even though I’ve only been here a day.

        • bdonvr@lemmy.rogers-net.com
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          1 year ago

          Only the very first user to subscribe/search for a new community needs to do this. It’ll just appear for everyone else on that instance from then on.

          And the devs are working on a solution to make this happen more automatically.

          Segmentation was a problem on Reddit too. Anyone could make a sub with a similar name to compete with another. Users on lemmy will probably slowly gravitate towards one or two big communities for each topic. It’s just early days.

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          1 year ago

          Ok, but question: If anyone can start up a Lemmy server, how do you expect existing servers to know about the new ones without someone explicitly making the connection?

          There’s no central Lemmy mainframe that every server is connected to. There are no hardwired or mandatory connections, and there shouldn’t be. I’m the face of that, what alternative solution do you propose?

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        1 year ago

        That’s really bad UX though isn’t it ? Probably something that needs to be looked into sooner rather than later.

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          Yeah I can appreciate the goal, and I can deal with many of the minor technical issues but this seems like a killer for me personally. The small community is already massively segmented due to the model, and I don’t see it getting better if each new person that joins up is on their own random instance and there’s no common way to cross them all and to dedupe magazines.

          But anyway I don’t want to be too negative as I realise this is all fairly new but think I’ll leave my account active so I can try this again in a while but it’s not for me yet.