Comment on Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience?
azdle@news.idlestate.org 8 months agoThat’s a problem anywhere with user generated content & user defined communities. The usual example is that when BOTW came out there were at least half a dozen subreddits created and more than one survived, so there were two that were both really popular at the same time and that’s in addiction to multiple Zelda and multiple Nintendo subs that might all get the same links/posts.
betabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
That’s a fair point, but one wins out usually, where with the lemmy numbers they seem to remain split with the smaller communities.
I’ve been on lemmy for several months now and most communities are completely split and activity on any given ‘news topic’ (as an example) varies widely on 0-50+ comments for the same topic popping up on the feed from several identical communities from varying instances. (Which is why grouping might be an alternative solution)