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.
If they’re similar enough I suppose they could merge, with the larger community eating the smaller one. Even though Reddit is a singular “instance” I used to mod a sub called /r/stopcomcast. There was a similar subreddit called /r/WarOnComcast and the existence of both didn’t make sense. We agreed to merge the subreddits and encourage users of /r/stopcomcast to go over to the other subreddit.
Here I’d imagine it would be just a little more difficult with separate instances being an extra layer and deciding who gets what.