I feel like having many communities works well on large platforms, but on smaller ones it fragments the already limited content, which in turn makes most communities inactive and reduces engagement.
I feel like having many communities works well on large platforms, but on smaller ones it fragments the already limited content, which in turn makes most communities inactive and reduces engagement.
Some of that is probably due to defederation and sometimes the gap in the personalities in instances are different enough to warrant communities of the same name on the difference instances regardless of federation status. Of course I’m sure there many many tiny duplicate communities that serve no useful purpose and it would help the UX if they weren’t there.