The same is not true of Reddit.

If I subscribe to /r/music, I see all post.

If I as a user subscribe to /c/music on Lemmy.world, I get only posts from lemmy.world.

These two are completely different, and that’s why it is going to struggle.

https://lemmy.world/c/music https://sh.itjust.works/c/music

If we can’t simplify this problem, the platform will struggle to gain serious ground.

I think this is kind of a larger problem with the fediverse, and ultimately why it won’t displace Reddit.

If I subscribe to a community called music, as a user I expect to see all posts from the fediverse. Instead what we get is posts from a specific instance. Duplicate isolated communities is not user friendly.

Fediverse atm just feels like a complicated reinvention of forums.