Seeing a big “politics” community in both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world just confuses me as to which I should be subscribing to and I don’t really want to subscribe to both.
Guess this is just a downside of federated instances? There’ll never just be one “/r/politics” on Lemmy?
Yeah. I too find it annoying.
Do you believe if you pick up the new york times it will have the same take as the bbc? I want more than 1 car magazine to exist. If one magazine starts to do things I don’t enjoy I can use another. Example, threads makes a car magazine, has more user base and everyone flocks to it over time for more frequent content change. Now threads starts manipulating content and putting in more advertisements… either you now have to go through a big change, or you just go to motortrend for a while until they have to hopefully scale back ads and such to keep users.
idk. it’s more like having 6 magazines about hyundai cars, i never know which of the ones to buy because they all look the same, and if i just buy half of them, the article i’m interested in is guaranteed to be in the one i didn’t buy.
and one day they all vanish after neither one sold enough copies to make profit.
it splits the community, what is a bad thing if the community isn’t super big to begin with. and it adds extra confusion to new users. and extra effort for people who want to stay up to date. and if i have a niche question i can’t just ask many people at once. i first have to look up in which community i need to ask. or i just ask in every community and annoy the people who subscribed to multiple ones… it’s just not a good solution to anything…
the one thing where this would be a good thing is if the communities were reasonably different. different in topic, focus, a noticable different culture of discussion or moderation, something drastic enough to warrant people splitting up … like your analogy with the nyt or bbc. but it’s simply not the case for these communities.