I guess the first thing I realized is that subreddits are called magazines here on kbin and communities over on lemmy. This reminds me of the whole astronaut/cosmonaut/taikonaut thing. Unnecessary terminology complications, especially considering magazines and communities are really just different views of the exact same thing as near as I can tell.
But what causes a bit of confusion is that unlike with a subreddit, you can have more than one magazine with the same name but hosted in different places. For example, I search python and it comes back with python@lemmy.ml, python (the one hosted here on kbin), python@sh.itjust.works, etc. It's a bit ironic that for a system whose raison d'être is to aggregate content, there seems to be something of a need for all these different sources to be aggregated together?
At this point, people seem to be busy recreating the usual suspects in terms of the subreddits we all know and love locally here on kbin, regardless of whether or not they already exist elsewhere in the fediverse. I am not necessarily opposed to this. If kbin develops in a more self-contained way, this may be more approachable to someone coming over from reddit. I could see a situation in which the bigger subreddits all turn into locally-hosted kbin magazines while the more niche ones require you to step outside and find them on the outer rim of the fediverse somewhere?
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