- 694 users / day
- 2.19K users / week
- 2.43K users / month
- 175 users / day
- 418 users / week
- 986 users / month
Having two similar communities on the same topic splits conversations, and give posters decision fatigue
Edit: some topics have consolidated their communities to avoid that, example from a few months ago: https://lemm.ee/post/46935805
Edit2: the UK community has a lot of different mod. The .org community only has one, who hasn’t been active since 8 days.
Which is brought up repeatedly by people against the Fediverse and Lemmy for a reason not to come here. Having similar communities consolidated helps to defuse that.
This is not a case of !politics@hexbear.net vs !politics@lemmy.world. The two BuyEuropean communities look very similar, and the instances have similar moderation policies.
I mean, meh, reddit had duplicate subreddits a million times and still has. One eventually dominates, which will also probably happen here.
We don’t have the user base that Reddit has.
There have been parallel communities existing without a clear winner for a very long time
Communities need to be actively consolidated for people to converge on one community. Examples of closed communities