For example, are you in !linux@lemmy.ml, !linux@lemmy.world, AND !linux@programming.dev?
Yes
When I started on Lemmy after the Reddit exodus, I started by browsing by All, subscribing to communities that looked interesting, and blocking communities that I didn’t want to see. I figured I’d eventually move to browsing by Subscribed, but more than a year later and I still browse by All. Removing the communities I didn’t want to see, especially the overly prolific meme communities, and blocking the posting bots has made browsing New just fine.
So I guess I see duplicate communities assuming there are posts and I haven’t blocked them.
Yes, except not the first one bc it’s on Lemmy.ml.
Exactly the same!
AskLemmy for me. I like occasionally answering questions and there isn’t enough posts on either for me.
“Duplicate”/competing communities is not a unique thing to Lemmy or the fediverse. Reddit had multiple competing communities for the same topic–different management.
Just apply the same rules.
Aye.
Yes with the exception that I block every single .ml community. When I post I generally choose the most popular one.
Curious. Why are you blocking .ml?
They remove any comments critical of their ideology so I rather not deal with them at all. ML stands for Marxism-Leninism incase you weren’t aware.
Ah, I see. I happen to be a Marxist Leninist l, but if they censor people as you described then I’m not for that and it actually goes against socialism.
Yes, and highly ironically, they act as teen edgelords and some people get banned precisely for being Marxist Leninists. Notably, the bans are often instance-wide, not just a community, and include being banned from communities that the recipient has never so much as heard of, much less posted problematic content into. Even a single sentence such as “the Tiananmen Square massacre actually happened” seems enough to trigger that. In short, like “conservative” Trump supporters in the USA, their claimed political affiliations are beside the point, and the reality is an echo chamber of misinformation and circle-jerking.
The caveat is that the instance admins also include developers of the Lemmy sourcecode so… Also it is one of the oldest Lemmy instances, predating its spread out to the rest of the world. Hence other instance admins do not want to defederate from it. Upcoming updates to the Lemmy sourcecode are also exclusively posted there (afaict, I mean other than raw GitHub).
Anyway, the people who get incubated inside of that echo chamber then come out into the rest of Lemmy, and many of us do not appreciate that.
The more you know.
The more you know. Thanks.
They tend to actually remove comments for being chauvinist and for some reason that seems to rub certain people the wrong way.
Yeah, all, and all.
Yes, but I only post to one at a time.
Not all heroes wear capes.
I do, though.
yes.
Yes and it’s annoying. That disperses even further the already small communities
Yes, it’s kind of amusing you didn’t cross-post this, in fact.
yes
Several, and thank you for making me aware of those in the OP, I was until now only subscribed to one of them.