it’s not a bug, it’s a feature, also, it’s not a bug, it’s a feature

Yes, and I’ve even cross-posted from one community to another trying to reach more help when I asked a question in the Linux help communities.

“Duplicate”/competing communities is not a unique thing to Lemmy or the fediverse. Reddit had multiple competing communities for the same topic–different management.

Just apply the same rules.

When I started on Lemmy after the Reddit exodus, I started by browsing by All, subscribing to communities that looked interesting, and blocking communities that I didn’t want to see. I figured I’d eventually move to browsing by Subscribed, but more than a year later and I still browse by All. Removing the communities I didn’t want to see, especially the overly prolific meme communities, and blocking the posting bots has made browsing New just fine.

So I guess I see duplicate communities assuming there are posts and I haven’t blocked them.

I’m in a few but as a general rule I try to avoid most of the ml instance communities because some of them can be a bit on the toxic side.

Generally I stick with the ones that are on the same server as my account i.e. [email protected] on my lemmy.world account and [email protected] on my programming.dev account with exceptions to ones where I don’t have presence on that instance, or I have limited purpose of having an account there (i.e. my lemmy.blahaj.zone account only serves to moderate the Aroace and Agender communities), in which case I usually choose the one which has been most reliable. Part of the reason I did it this way was because in the early days when Lemmy.world had load issues and was being DDoSed federation would have a lot of issues,

yes.

Yep.

Looking forward to multi-community support on Lemmy.

It won’t fix the issue of comments being everywhere though. Take this post I made on [email protected]. The same link has been crossposted to 7 other communities with many more comments. I wonder if in the future it’ll be possible to combine comments from various posts about a single link into a megapost of some sort.

Yes with the exception that I block every single .ml community. When I post I generally choose the most popular one.

yes

AskLemmy for me. I like occasionally answering questions and there isn’t enough posts on either for me.

Yes

Yes

Yes, it’s kind of amusing you didn’t cross-post this, in fact.

Yep. There’s not really enough content in a lot of single Instance communities, but when you sign up for all of them it gets to a reasonable degree of activity.

How many times do I have to answer this question!?