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Respectfully, who cares?
Hard truth... you're not important. None of us are. No one cares enough about your opinions that they need you to "maximize your reach" by posting in multiple places. That is entirely a you problem, not an us problem.
No one is forcing you to post everything multiple times to multiple communities. You're free to choose one and post to it. if it's interesting enough, someone will likely share it to other communities. And if it isn't interesting enough, they won't. Simple as that.
that's... how... it.... works
Also, you talk as though browsing r/all on Reddit doesn't also show multiple copies of the same post sent to multiple communities. Of course it does. Declaring something the "main" community isn't going to change that anyway.
I don’t understand these “That’s just how the world is. Shame on you for discussing it” comments. I think it is very much worth discussing this, even if the conclusion of the discussion is that it’s not worth changing after all.
You point out similar dynamics on Reddit, but it’s obviously not exactly the same. The design of Reddit is such that there is a much stronger tendency for main communities to arise. By contrast, lots of smaller communities on Lemmy look like ghost towns, where they would be much healthier if they combined numbers. “You’re free to do whatever” doesn’t address the systemic issue.
That said, I don’t think this is obvious either way. There are tons of benefits to the current system too. That’s why it’s worth coming back to this topic every once in a while. If these sorts of nitty gritty design discussions bore you, why are you on this community?
Thank you for your comment.
Lol what fucking idiot downvoted this
I stopped being upset with downvotes a while ago.
Lemmy is nicer than Reddit, but people are still going to downvote for no reason
Yeh I don't care either, I just find it funny that most Lemmy users hold themselves out as some how 'better' than reddit, yet they engage in exactly the same dumb behaviors that make reddit a terrible place.
Definitely. I know heavy moderation is usually frowned upon, but I think Beehaw are doing something interesting with keeping the discussions "nice"
This is a really shitty way to express your disagreement.
And the fragmentation is definitely an issue worth discussing. It's a lot more prominent here, in my opinion, than reddit, and that could discourage potential users.