So I notice that KBIN and BEEHAW and LEMMY all have duplicate pages dedicated to the same content. Are we as a community going to have to decide which page will be the ‘main’ page, will we have to subscribe to each magazine for each instance, or will they consolidate eventually?
So like, theres a technology@beehaw, a technology@lemmy, and a tech for kbin. Does it make sense to spend time cultivating one, if another ends up getting more attention?
100% agree. But we should never try to force things to “one.” There should never be just one community for a topic. That’s what Reddit is. “This is the videos subreddit, if you don’t like it you don’t have a choice.”
Good communities will rise. Bad communities will fall. Some communities will attract users because they’re big and have lots of members. Some communities will attract users because they’re small and friendly. Choice is good. Fixating on there only being “one” of anything is bad.
This gets into another problem. You’ll never reach the critical mass that reddit did by having almost everyone on the same page. You had experts from every field commenting on some articles. Loads of knowledge in one place. It would’ve been awesome to have something like that.