I'm new here, and have been looking into different communities to subscribe to, it's pretty difficult to decide which ones to subscribe to when theres often the same community on more than one server. (Example: internetisbeautiful on @feddit.de, @lemmy.ee, @lemmy.ml)

I'm not super savvy but couldn't they merge them and have the community hosted as mirrors of each other on both for redundancy? If I'm wrong, do correct me, again, not super savvy and also new here.

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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Play around. Press things and see what happens. Don't be afraid to break them - what's the worst that could happen, haha?!:-P

Edit: I should add that PieFed is not "finished" yet. Not is Lemmy, but in some ways Lemmy is way more polished than PieFed, and in so many other ways PieFed has so many more cool features than Lemmy. But you will most definitely find things here that aren't even fully functional, much less polished (in Lemmy as well, but far more often in PieFed tbh). Both Lemmy and PieFed, we here feel, are still leagues ahead of Reddit's enshittification, even though we acknowledge that the tech features and polish that Reddit has (it had a whole team of people putting a decade of work into it!) is still vastly superior to anything we have here on the Fediverse. But there's no ads, and therefore no pressure from above to e.g. not say words like "Luigi", and it's possible to have a conversation with someone kind here (on Reddit that got increasingly less likely), and while we have bots here, they are properly labeled as such the vast majority of the time (and PieFed helps further by adding an icon to those accounts that it suspects are bots in disguise:-), and so on. The trade-offs include that there are fewer people here, the complexity of using this place is sometimes higher, and the interface is not as polished as Reddit. But it's getting better all the time!:-)