Comment on Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience?

livus@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

@droning_in_my_ears it's okay, you're just still thinking in the old way (so are some of the commenters in here). Once you get your head around this, you'll see it.

You could have 2 different communities with the same niche and the same or similar name but different insurances and the subscriber numbers will be split across them. I think this is damaging to growth because it spreads active users.

Okay here's what you're missing: the active users are active in multiple of them at the same time. Where something is hosted no longer matters.

Take my news as an example, I subscribe to world news on my own instance kbin.social and on lemmy.world, on beehaw, and on lemmy.ml. When I view my Subscriptions I see all of them in my daily feed and I vote and comment in all of them.

And on Kbin we have Collections (like multireddits) which means I also have a multi news feed with news communities from dozens of communities on many different instances.

The beauty of it is, if an instance gets ruined by a Spez-like figure it doesn't matter because federation.

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