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.
That was my first thought as well. There are often a couple huge subs about variations of a topic, then a constellation of smaller subs about more niche aspects of that topic, or circlejerk versions. People naturally gravitate towards the largest one and swerve away from it if the mods go crazy or if it gets brigaded.
Nature finds a way. I sub all of them and then I unsub if I get too many duplicates.