As a new reddit exile, I may be misunderstanding this.

In theory something like a !gaming community could crop up on multiple large instances, especially during the mass exodus while instances are getting hammered with spikes in volume.

If that’s the case, we’ll have fragmented communities across instances. Is there any way besides subscribing to each of them to combine them into a sort of multi-reddit type aggregation? Or is this considered a temporary (albeit important to adoption) problem during the crazy stages?

  • (deleted-account)@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Why would I want 100 fragmented communities for the exact same thing?

    I believe over time it’ll sort out and one community will be dominant. But the reason you want this is so whoever got c/canada won’t be dominant. If the mod of c/canada was a QAnon lizardpeople nut, you wouldn’t need to make c/RealCanada because there’s not a single real c/canada. You would make c/canada@lemmy.ml

    But also, many communities were spread out even in reddit. Like r/traa and r/egg_irl.