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Honestly I'm kind of struggling with the concept. I'm using the connect android app but it's just not clicking for me.. how do I know if I've found the right community? On Reddit there was only one /r/gaming but when i search on lemmy I get lots of small communities all for the same thing across different instances. Am I misunderstanding how this works? This must be how my parents felt when i first tried explaining Reddit to them 5 years ago
So from what I've seen.... Yeah. There are a lot of redundant communities sometimes with the exact same name scattered across the different fediverse instances. I have noticed that many of those are new within the last 2-3 weeks which is probably attributed to the reddit exodus, maybe with some more time these communities will mature and aggregate a little bit to make it easier on new users.
For now I have subscribed to many small and fragmented communities and I view them all at the same time on my "home page" with the wefwef webapp