@kennedyneil @[email protected] @[email protected] once all the chaos settles, communities would aggregate in different instances. So the !pics community in say lemmy.world may become THE pics community on the #fediverse and you end up following it while being a member on say lemmy.ml. Instances could end up niching down which will ultimately be for the better
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@airsay @[email protected] @[email protected] yes this is probably true, but I don't think we have the numbers, or engagement right now for that to happen in the short term. It will take a while for the chaos to settle and it might take so long it just never really happens.
To be fair, reddit is the same way. There's an r/pics and r/pic and r/pictures and r/picture and r/photo and etc.
What happened is eventually one of the subreddits (r/pics) rose to the top and the rest are either made private (although that could be the protest) or only have a few users. Lemmy will likely end up the same way, with some of them being popular and some not popular.
The only way I can see multiple popular communites for exactly the same topic is if there is defederation involved (for example, if Beehaw never rejoins the web as a whole, or etc).