For example, I’m on Lemmy.ml and I’ve joined !photography@lemmy.ml, !photography@lemmy.world, and !photography@kbin.social. In this example, it’s not very different from the number of similar groups on Flickr but, in comparison to Reddit, it seems like the decentralized platform can be a little unruly.

How are you going about joining different communities and managing your engagement? Are you only participating on the community on your instance? Are you joining and posting in as many instances that seem relevant?

  •  Rottcodd   ( @Rottcodd@kbin.social ) 
    12•1 year ago

    For all the times I’ve seen people complain about this, I still don’t see what the supposed problem is.

    Yeah - it’s just a tiny bit more effort to subscribe to three communities instead of one, but then that’s it. It doesn’t matter in the slightest from that point on, since all three of them are going to come up just the same in my feed.

    I honestly think that there really isn’t a problem - that really, there’s no notable way in which anyone is actually negatively affected. It’s just that it’s different, and different is bad.

    •  DeadlineX   ( @DeadlineX@lemm.ee ) English
      1•1 year ago

      I subscribe to a lot of similar communities myself, however I’ve recently gone on a bit of a culling spree. It seems a lot of people cross post to the various communities, so I see the same article posted by 3 different people in 3 different communities, and now I have this article about twitter’s rebranding 9 times.

      Since my app doesn’t mark read on scroll I have to vote on it or open it to make it go away. It’s not enjoyable, so I’ve just been limiting my engagement to only the more popular or active communities.