It doesn’t mean not finding a common ground, though. If anything, it’s healthy to have smaller, more fragmented groups. Otherwise, you end up with a reddit or 4chan situation, and that only benefits those who fit the status quo.
What you call a weakness is the thing I like best about the fediverse. There are no “official” or centralized forums, nor should there be.
Is it a problem that people with a common interest, cannot find common ground ? Yes, it is a fatal flaw for a social network.
Sure, and client viewer can activate a “local posts only”. It’s easy to exclude everything else.
But you can’t undelete what never existed. If there is no common space there is no community.
The best compromise Lemmy has is “the one big community” that drowns out everything and sucks the air out.
It doesn’t mean not finding a common ground, though. If anything, it’s healthy to have smaller, more fragmented groups. Otherwise, you end up with a reddit or 4chan situation, and that only benefits those who fit the status quo.
What you call a weakness is the thing I like best about the fediverse. There are no “official” or centralized forums, nor should there be.
Care to explain why you think it’s bad?