Comparatively, the multi-communities idea, I’d guess, is a much more natural extension as it’s really just allowing a user to have multiple sets of subscriptions, which is an already established process/feature.

I guess that's where I see the issue and maybe were talking past each other a bit. I think if its community moderators that 'subscribe' their sublemmys to multi-communities, that could work. But if its on individual users, its not going to solve the fundamental underlying issue of discovery.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hear you. I appreciate you breaking down the conversation too!!

I guess I’d hope discovery could occur through wide spread multi-community suggestions, ideally posted in community sidebars too ( though that’s probably unlikely). I’d also hope the cross post interface gets better, with all cross posts listed (not just those that share a URL), and the ability to view all comments from all cross posts together (maybe with some options around whether you subscribe to them or not).

Beyond that, I’m still not sure we’re in a worse position than Reddit was, apart from currently having a small size?

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, overall I think lemmy is way better than reddit, even now. But the bigger the fediverse gets the more consequences come from drastic changes. Good to have these discussions now going through the growing pains under a relatively small user base.