For example, I want to join a Today I learned community but when I search for it, I come across 4 of them on different instances.
What do you guys do when you see this? Join the one with the most users, join all of them?
For example, I want to join a Today I learned community but when I search for it, I come across 4 of them on different instances.
What do you guys do when you see this? Join the one with the most users, join all of them?
They should treat it like hashtags on mastodon.
Anyone can post to a #communityname. Local mods are responsible for content from their instance. If an instance doesn’t weed out shit posts, other instances can stop importing its content.
I think defederating is easier said than done, and besides, what if one community is very well behaved and helpful and another is toxic and awful? You throw out the good with the bad in that case.
I think instead the user should be able to choose to combine similar communities, similar to the ‘multireddit’ concept. Then they can get lemmy.ml gaming and beehaw gaming in the same feed.
To help with discovery, a curated list could be created, and perhaps communities from that list could be suggested as time goes on. This does require some kind of centralisation but it would be down to the instance owner to decide to subscribe to it.
I think defederating is easier said than done, and besides, what if one community is very well behaved and helpful and another is toxic and awful? You throw out the good with the bad in that case.
I think instead the user should be able to choose to combine similar communities, similar to the ‘multireddit’ concept. Then they can get lemmy.ml gaming and beehaw gaming in the same feed.
To help with discovery, a curated list could be created, and perhaps communities from that list could be suggested as time goes on. This does require some kind of centralisation but it would be down to the instance owner to decide to subscribe to it.
To me the trick isn’t consuming similar communities, but cross pollinating to them. Like if you want to comment on a new game trailer do you copy and paste the same thing into ten threads?
Yeah, lemmy needs an alias feature like Mastodon
I don’t think that should work like that.
Take, for example, [email protected] and [email protected]. They have the same name, yet they have different goals. One is a generic world news type community, while the other is specialized to the instance.
Treating everything as the same overarching community would be really limiting. Sure, the split can be a problem if you’re not used to it, but like how you can have multiple similar subreddits (e.g, /r/portugal, /r/portugal2, /r/portugueses, etc) with varying levels of popularity and affluence, you should be able to have multiple Lemmy communities, but since we’re federated, we don’t need to pick different IDs, we can just be on a different instance.