I’ve noticed in the explosion that we are getting duplicate communities in multiple instances. This is ultimately gonna hinder community growth as eventually communities like ‘cats’ will exist in hundreds of places all with their own micro groups, and some users will end up subscribing to duplicates in their list.

A: could we figure out a system to let our communities know about the duplicates as a sticky so that users can better find each other?

B: I think this is the best solution, could a ‘super community’ method be developed under which communities can join or be parented to under that umbrella and allow us to subscribe to the super community under which the smaller ones nest as subs? This would allow the communities to stay somewhat fractured across multiple instances which can in turn protect a community from going dark if a server dies, while still keeping the broader audience together withing a syndicated feed?

  • gunnervi
    6•2 years ago

    I think this needs to be on the user end. I get that the fediverse can be confusing for people used to centralized platforms, but what’s even more confusing is trying to participate in it while the details of which community you’re actually posting in are obscured. [email protected] is run by different people than [email protected] or [email protected] and they may well have different rules and standards, and the user should be aware of this.

    Now, if these different communities want to link up, or if [email protected] wants to have an “official” group on some other fediverse platform, the way many subreddits have official discords, they should have a way to do that, the same way many users want to be ablr to link their different fediverse accounts

    • Dojan
      2•2 years ago

      I had not thought about different communities having different rules, but that’s a very important detail to take into consideration.

      I would also like to see the ability for users to group together different communities into their own private groups/collections. Heck maybe even make those shareable with others. Not so much that the communities are linked together, just aggregated into its own curatable feed.

      The flexibility these platforms and the fediverse in general can come to provide is really intriguing! I’m excited to see where we’ll be in five to ten years.