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 nice if the instances could essentially federate themselves across instances. If two communities agree, they could both combine and show the posts from one another’s feeds, without sacrificing their autonomy. This way if you are subscribed to once instance’s community, you could see content from a much larger super community.