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Just curious, why do people sometimes choose to post to a Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed community on a different instance? Discussion & Question (piefed.social)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/fediverse@piefed.social
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[โ€“] 7 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

It's the beauty of federation. Under reddit etc. If a community you were interested in had shit admins, there wasn't much you could do. Here you can create your own theme park with hookers and blackjack. Growing it to build something great.

Does it create duplication? Yes some. Though new backends like piefed are supposed to be addressing it a bit. But more importantly it creates competition.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Well, on Reddit people often do create new communities for the same topic because they don't like the rules/culture/mods of the original one. So would you say that's the same reason for choosing a different community on the Fediverse?

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago

    Yes, but they can't make use of the name on Reddit. So if you didn't like how r/movies was made, the odds are there's no intuitive name for a subreddit to take left to try and compete with them.

    Not that you even can effectively compete with them because subreddit promotion on reddit is total garbage.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Certainly to an extent. Though the fediverse model is much more elegant and clear. Plus it offers massive benefits to organizations. Seeking to have communities and comms that they can truly call their own. Maintaining as they see fit. The KDE and blender groups for instance have their own servers and their own communities on them. That they can manage and focus on just their projects. No missing on the servers with toxic political communities like leninists or fascists. Just their projects and only their projects or things related to it.

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