You're viewing a single thread.
You have duplicate communities, posts, etc.
It's hard to find communities.
Duplicate communities also existed on reddit, though. There were just so many people, it was a feature.
r/dgdag and r/dogs_getting_dogs are an example
True, but it's more complicated wiht Lemmy since the duplicate communities aren't as obvious because of the multiple instances.
Its kind of a bug and a feature since it's how decentralized services work but it will likely keep Lemmy from growing (at least to the extent that reddit did).
I see the fediverse growing slowly over time as people realize that centralized services are fundamentally doomed in several ways. It's always only a matter of time before a bad UX change, or they're acquired and they sell your data, or the owner turns out to be a sex offender, or the platform is taken over by trolls, etc. Each time one of these mass exodus' happen, most users will jump onto the next doomed bandwagon, but some small portion will try out the fediverse where they'll realize they're now relatively immune from these fatal flaws. An instance might go down, but the rest of them will move on without them.
It's also hard to find active communities that aren't just reposting from another source, like another lemmy community on another lemmy site, or reddit or something. It's kind of weird here.
I wish they had multi-"reddit" support so I can aggregate common communities between instances. I suppose clients could do this but I haven't seen the option yet.