I come from Reddit and been enjoying Lemmy so far. How is Lemmy dealing with multiple communities on the same topic? To me:

  • If the communities are all active, then I shall subscribe to all of them, but end up having lots of duplicate/similar posts on my feed
  • If there is one community that is dominating, then what is the point of federation?

I was subscribed to android@lemmy.world, and just because I actively went into it, I saw a post that the community was frozen and they decided to use another android community on a different server, to avoid fragmentation.

  • stooovie@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 years ago

    I think this could be “solved” on client side. On Reddit you could (can? Idk) merge various subs to a single view, maybe clients like Memmy could do the same.

    • mtcerio@lemmy.worldOP
      62·
      2 years ago

      Merging multiple communities like in a Reddit multisub would not solve the issue of duplicated posts in one’s feed.

      • stooovie@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 years ago

        That looks like something that could be done on client as well, doesn’t it? I don’t know if posts have UUIDs or something but maybe it can be done.

        • mtcerio@lemmy.worldOP
          11·
          2 years ago

          The problem is that posts may be exactly on the same trending topic, but not exactly the same. They could link to two different news sources for essentially the same news item. Or they could be a text or an image post about the same. Reddit mods would usually remove this kind of soft duplication within the same sub, and instead encourage to comment to one single post.

        • mtcerio@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          2 years ago

          The way I use multis in Reddit is to create bigger topics, and I rarely see duplicated posts. For example, in Reddit I do not have a multi for subs /r/android1, /r/android2, /r/android3. However, I have a multi for mobile OSs, grouping /r/android and /r/iOS. Rarely do I see duplication.