The lemmings are a squeaky bunch.

  • @chiliedogg
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    81 month ago

    There’s definitely a difference with scale.

    On reddit, I was never on the default front page or /r/all. I was subbed to a hundred niche communities.

    On lemmy that’s harder in 2 ways. The first is the critical mass you need to keep a community active, and the second is fragmentation.

    For instance, I was super active in the scuba and underway photography subreddits. Not only is the community tiny here, but which scuba sub do i go to? With multiple instances, there’s no default community named “scuba.”

        • Sunshine (she/her)OP
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          21 month ago

          I just checked those communities on Lemmy.ca and part of the problem is that they weren’t federated to Lemmy.ca so I subscribed to them to make connection then hopefully you will have more Canucks diving in ;)

    • @MellowSnow
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      21 month ago

      It would be neat if same-topic communities somehow could somehow merge into a single community view via federation. There are probably some downsides to what I’m considering, but it seems like it could help alleviate fragmentation while allowing the “same” communities to be hosted across multiple instances. If one instance defederated from another, the community posts in that instance would be excluded from the combined view.

      Maybe even a simple opt-in/out of a combined view for communities that truly want or need to stand alone. Not sure if this goes against the core concepts of federation or not. It seems like a nice compromise at a glance, if it could be implemented well.

      • OpenStars
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        31 month ago

        PieFed already has such Categories of Communities, it’s a really nice feature. PieFed has a lot of such things actually - like hashtags, the ability to block all users from an instance without requiring admin approval, YouTube embeds, etc.

        Unfortunately PieFed is not quite ready for the masses as its more foundational features aren’t finished yet, like much of the times a Notification won’t point to whatever caused it for whatever reason, and it lacks user tagging, and search options.

        But it’s nice to see these kinds of features functional already!:-)