If everyone was spread out onto different instances, and communities were based all over the fediverse, the decisions of one instance would be less impactful. - eviltoast
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    1 year ago

    I think so, especially as users can’t have multiple subscription lists. The post sorting algorithms use activity as a key metric, so lots of fragmented communities will get buried under posts from (for example) memes@lemmysworld.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t use All. It’s completely devoid of interesting things for me. I tend to use Top Day Subscribed so I’m looking for stories that have some traction and a conversation going on. Doing that with a large number of subscriptions means the most popular topics overwhelm the less popular topics. All I’ll see is Memes, but never my sub about scuba diving. If the scuba diving community is split across 7 channels, but memes is just one big channel, that just gets worse.

        I was a big user of multireddits. That allowed me to group subs together for more niche topics, and see what was top in that area. I think Lemmy isn’t going to cultivate smaller channels without having a way to get them appear regularly to users.