Honestly I’m kind of struggling with the concept. I’m using the connect android app but it’s just not clicking for me… how do I know if I’ve found the right community? On Reddit there was only one /r/gaming but when i search on lemmy I get lots of small communities all for the same thing across different instances. Am I misunderstanding how this works? This must be how my parents felt when i first tried explaining Reddit to them 5 years ago
That’s a legit issue with these federated social media sites. The whole idea is to avoid one entity having too much power, but it splinters the discussions and the communities in a way that inhibits them.
How do we know a better gaming discussion isn’t happening some place else?
How does a company interact with fans and grow its brand without spamming every single gaming community on the fediverse?
Not sure what the solutions are, but maybe that’s the point? We’re trying to usher in the older days of internet communities. Smaller, closer forums.
So from what I’ve seen… Yeah. There are a lot of redundant communities sometimes with the exact same name scattered across the different fediverse instances. I have noticed that many of those are new within the last 2-3 weeks which is probably attributed to the reddit exodus, maybe with some more time these communities will mature and aggregate a little bit to make it easier on new users.
For now I have subscribed to many small and fragmented communities and I view them all at the same time on my “home page” with the wefwef webapp
You can certainly just join the biggest one, but if you want to catch more similar stuff, join several c/gaming across a few instances. While they are seperate, when you browse your subscribed you won’t really notice I guess.
This is a good question! I don’t know enough to answer correctly, but answering wrong will likely have someone correcting me ;)
I believe each instance will have local posts/comments, e.g. a local version of /l/gaming but there are 3 methods of viewing posts: local instance (all communities/posts for users on that instance), all (all communities on all instances), or communities (all instances, but specific community). I suspect filtering will improve to bring better ways of filtering and sorting, but it’s going to be dependent on the lemmy app, mobile app, and potentially custom mods on an instance.
Honestly I’m kind of struggling with the concept. I’m using the connect android app but it’s just not clicking for me… how do I know if I’ve found the right community? On Reddit there was only one /r/gaming but when i search on lemmy I get lots of small communities all for the same thing across different instances. Am I misunderstanding how this works? This must be how my parents felt when i first tried explaining Reddit to them 5 years ago
That’s a legit issue with these federated social media sites. The whole idea is to avoid one entity having too much power, but it splinters the discussions and the communities in a way that inhibits them.
How do we know a better gaming discussion isn’t happening some place else?
How does a company interact with fans and grow its brand without spamming every single gaming community on the fediverse?
Not sure what the solutions are, but maybe that’s the point? We’re trying to usher in the older days of internet communities. Smaller, closer forums.
So from what I’ve seen… Yeah. There are a lot of redundant communities sometimes with the exact same name scattered across the different fediverse instances. I have noticed that many of those are new within the last 2-3 weeks which is probably attributed to the reddit exodus, maybe with some more time these communities will mature and aggregate a little bit to make it easier on new users.
For now I have subscribed to many small and fragmented communities and I view them all at the same time on my “home page” with the wefwef webapp
You can certainly just join the biggest one, but if you want to catch more similar stuff, join several c/gaming across a few instances. While they are seperate, when you browse your subscribed you won’t really notice I guess.
This is a good question! I don’t know enough to answer correctly, but answering wrong will likely have someone correcting me ;)
I believe each instance will have local posts/comments, e.g. a local version of /l/gaming but there are 3 methods of viewing posts: local instance (all communities/posts for users on that instance), all (all communities on all instances), or communities (all instances, but specific community). I suspect filtering will improve to bring better ways of filtering and sorting, but it’s going to be dependent on the lemmy app, mobile app, and potentially custom mods on an instance.