Fragmented communities is such an annoying problem in the fediverse.
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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 weeks ago
I’d say yes. If the volume becomes overwhelming new communities can easily be created.
cRazi_man@europe.pub 3 weeks ago
Auster@thebrainbin.org 3 weeks ago
The problem can also be a positive, so that communities for more specific niches can be created, or to have alternatives with different management philosophies.
AngryMob@lemmy.one 3 weeks ago
User numbers are still far too low for this to be a practical positive imo.
makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Agreed, the fediverse is small enough now that living aggregate communities are preferable to dead specific ones. Especially because everyone hates posting something, getting their post removed and being told to go post in another very similar community they didn’t know existed. As you said, if it becomes a problem you can just spin off