Say what you will about reddit, at least an established subreddit was the place to gather on the topic, ie r/technology etc.
With Lemmy, doesn’t it follow that similar communities on different instances will simply dilute the userbase, for example !technology@lemmy.ml and !technology@beehaw.org. How do we best use lemmy as a (small c) community when a topic can be split amongst many (large C) Communities?
This is an earnest question, in no way am I suggesting lemmy is inferior to reddit. I’m quite enjoying myself here.
It would be really nice if communities could be connected right at instance level.
So if you have c/abc on instance 1 and c/abc on instance 2, and you subscribe to either of them, it would, by default, subscribe you to both (assuming that both instances agree to such a cooperation).
Something could also be arranged within communities, especially when it comes to posting. Such as, when posting, to be able to select multiple coms to post to, but it would still be just one post you could edit or delete, and have all the comments in one place.
On Reddit I would sometimes struggle with which sub to post to, and I don’t like posting to multiple ones or crossposting if I can avoid it.
At that point why not just agree within both communities to all migrate into a single community on whatever instance?
They may also not be exactly the same just with a significant overlap.
But yea why not. It’s just a suggestion for an option that should exist imo.