I feel like having many communities works well on large platforms, but on smaller ones it fragments the already limited content, which in turn makes most communities inactive and reduces engagement.
I feel like having many communities works well on large platforms, but on smaller ones it fragments the already limited content, which in turn makes most communities inactive and reduces engagement.
I know reddit used to have a “general” reddit.com page at the beginning, but here it is more like world shitpost where people put whatever.
You may or not have seen recent cross-instance dramas, but that is part of the reason why I think it is better to have a fragmented and decentralized set of instances instead of one melting pot, so that it’s not one set of admins calling the shots on behalf of all of Lemmy.