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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com to [Closed] Moved to !fedigrow@lemmy.zip@lemm.eeEnglish · 4 months ago

Lemmy Needs to Fix Its Community Separation Problem

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Lemmy Needs to Fix Its Community Separation Problem

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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com to [Closed] Moved to !fedigrow@lemmy.zip@lemm.eeEnglish · 4 months ago
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For the unaware, is a alternative to platforms such as Reddit and Tildes. I've been using Lemmy as one of my main social platforms for the past 6 months...
  • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    The same users who get “choice paralysis” from deciding where to post are, typically, the ones who

    I’m not so sure. I sometimes have choice paralysis again on a topic I’m not familiar with, and I’m sure quite a lot of other people do as well

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      I’m sure plenty exceptions exist - that’s why I said “typically”, it’s that sort of generalisation that applies less to real individuals and more to an abstract “typical user”.

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        @threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works , which is quite active as well, has a similar experience: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39248886/17090166

        To me, choice paralysis happens to most of people, whatever their familiarity level with the platform. I would actually be worried if someone knew exactly where to post for any topic, because it would mean they probably just default to their home instance

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          I’ve personally developed my system as:

          1. If there are multiple communities, which is the most popular?
          2. If the most popular community is on a problematic instance, skip to the next most popular that is also on a good instance.

          That takes away the paralysis, at least for me.

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            What do you do when there are two similarly active communities?

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              Hm, I can’t recall encountering that yet, but I can see how that would be a harder one to decide. I suppose I might cycle between them.

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                !android@lemmy.world and !android@lemdro.id comes to mind

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                  I think it’s fair to choose the smaller instance then, in the interest of diversification.

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                    Indeed, but as long as other people still prefer the LW version both communities will continue to splinter the conversations

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