This is not going to be a blogpost about "Why do people still use Reddit instead of everyone moving to Lemmy?". I noticed that even with Mastodon users, who already understand and like the advantages of decentralized platforms, the usage of Lemmy is extremely small, and more people use Reddit. Most of them haven't even heard of Lemmy. To be fair, the Reddit usage also seems to be fairly low.

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[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 37 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

sue 2: Users could agree on one community. Or (a functionality Lemmy doesn't have), similar communities could be grouped or linked together. Instead of choosing between Linux@lemmy.ml and Linux@lemmy.world, users could follow a combined “Linux” topic.

Doesn't PieFed do exactly that?

[–] squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi 27 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Yes, and it consolidates comments from cross-posts. Very neat.

[–] AmbiguousCabbage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

How does the topic consolidation work, exactly? Does it only consolidate cross-posts, or does it also consolidate all posts from communities that have exactly the same name? The only documentation I can find is at https://join.piefed.social/features/ which just says:

Consolidated Comments – View all comments from multiple related posts on one page (example).

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 7 points 14 hours ago

Its very cool.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Personally I'm not a fan. Imagine if /r/games and /r/gaming on reddit shared comment sections. That'd be a complete mess.

Different communities should be allowed to nurture their own culture.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Well it doesn't mix the comments, there's a divider between

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk -4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

A divider, lol. It's still the same page and everything. Hardly any separation. We shouldn't encourage this mono-culture style.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 9 points 10 hours ago

Well you don't have to use it if you don't like it. Many people like it, it was a feature with high demand. Even without the feature I always check the crossposts for different comments, so it's the same thing just more convenient, no difference in "mono-culture"