Three posts, across the fediverse, point to exactly the same link, with the same post text.
I would just love it if wefwef could collapse these into one (“Seen in 3 communities”) and then collapse the comments into one mega-thread.
Three posts, across the fediverse, point to exactly the same link, with the same post text.
I would just love it if wefwef could collapse these into one (“Seen in 3 communities”) and then collapse the comments into one mega-thread.
I think even if nothing is intentionally done about it, it will get better. A dominant community will emerge, and other communities will evolve to have their own unique quirks. We’re still in a kind of wild phase where every community is trying to find its place.
That said, some kind of multi community organ6would be a very welcome feature.
An example within Reddit.
There are 5 different subs. Freefolk, Oldfreefolk and GameofThrones, asoiaf(A Song of Ice and Fire), pureasoiaf. All on the same subject matter.
Each has an active community serving a different need.
r/GameOfThrones for general discussion
r/freefolk for fans that only want to talk smack about the series
I don’t know what the others are for
/r/asoiaf is mostly just for book discussion
For that to happen though, the discoverability of communities needs to be better. Right now, searching for communities shows the number of people who are subscribed to it from your own instance, and not the true user count.
Integrating the functionality of lemmyverse.net into lemmy like in this github issue would fix that and needs to be done asap; it’s probably the biggest hurdle for newcomers
Sure, I agree. Certainly some work needs to be done.
Sure, I agree. Certainly some work needs to be done.
Maybe not, considering the dynamic is different. On Lemmy there’s different instances that can have different people talking about the same topic, some will defederate each other so they might not even see that for you there’s a duplicate etc.
Merging it all into a mega thread is an option, but poses the question of which one will you comment to? This has to be explicit or it will cause confusion.
Mtgere are differences yes, but most of the instances that are significant are federated.
If the fediverse does not get too fragmented, I think it won’t be too different, but I grant that significant fragmentation could potentially be a problem.