How do we deal with similar communities on different Lemmy instances?

blitzen@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 4 points –

Say what you will about reddit, at least an established subreddit was the place to gather on the topic, ie r/technology etc.

With Lemmy, doesn't it follow that similar communities on different instances will simply dilute the userbase, for example !technology@lemmy.ml and !technology@beehaw.org. How do we best use lemmy as a (small c) community when a topic can be split amongst many (large C) Communities?

This is an earnest question, in no way am I suggesting lemmy is inferior to reddit. I'm quite enjoying myself here.

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This assumes that power doesn't corrupt and that the big "kind" communities don't eventually turn bad.

That's exactly the point: if they become "bad", we can always move to another one with the same name but on another instance

This is such a great feature and advantage.