This is great! I think the ones that get more subs will generally rise to the top and people will start congregating there.

I’m seeing a bunch of upvotes on peoples comments here. I’m hoping that those people are also subbing to the communities they see in here.

I’m gonna try to remember to post this kind of question maybe once a month and over time we’ll get communities popping off.

most of them are on reddit, and probably unaware that lemmy exists, plus there are still medical based forums out there too. probably hard to see out of the 50k users, which one will ask a medical based issue.

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I kinda wish we’d merge them… which I know goes against the grain of how the fediverse is supposed to operate.

Not necessarily:

One of the advantages of a decentralized platform like Lemmy is the ability to create parallel communities on the same topic. “You don’t like how a community is being moderated? Go to another instance and start your own community!” (with or without blackjack and hookers)

However, this is a double-edged sword. The creation of multiple communities on the same (or similar) topics can also fragment the userbase, leading to very sparsely populated communities.

I think it only makes sense to have multiple communities on the same topic if each version serves a specific niche or has a unique moderation style. I think most of the examples you’ve given would be suitable for consolidation into two or three communities.

More info on consolidating communities in the pinned thread on !fedigrow@lemmy.zip.

What are your thoughts?