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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

As lemmy grows organically, there will be continuous increases in duplicate communities. This poses a long-term problem because I don't think most people want to subscribe to half a dozen or more communities that are essentially the same.

Is there any chance that the thought leaders of Lemmy which probably includes the largest servers owners could come together and start proposing ideas?

I see a potential troubling issue with the idea in terms of combining the existing history of the duplicates communities.

Perhaps a new concept of community@global could be thought through.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

@MasterBlaster You'll be able to have your favourite ones without having to also subscribe to that one with that idiot who won't shut up about it. Conversations are better with lots of small groups than one big stage.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I mean it's the same on reddit, just that they have to have slightly different names.

I'm pretty sure that duplicates will sort them selves out organically over time.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

yeah, multiple communities for any topic has ALWAYS been a thing, Im usually subbed to a 1/2 dozen on any given topic, and the better stuff is very often in the secondaries first.

im not sure what OP is on about but a bunch of migrants are saying this. I guess they are also young redditors and only see what the admins have given them.

I learned long ago that my home page has "different" due to being very old.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I guess chances for duplicate communities are higher on federated services, but I hope you're right. And even that shouldn't be a problem once we get multi subreddits, or the equivalent of it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, ran into this for baseball communities, its tough to gain some critical mass to compete with an r/baseball if they remain splintered

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My ideal scenario would be multi communities. create a multi community, tied to your user account. you can then add any community from any fediverse account or community.

So in essence you would a multi community called baseball. In it are posts from [email protected] [email protected] and mastodon posts from @[email protected]

Either browser each multi community separately or even build a frontpage consisting of all multi communities.

I might open a feature request for this......

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This is exactly what I'm hoping to see. On another thread I saw people hoping to narrow it down to one true community for each topic but afaik multis would solve these issues. Instead of just browsing the baseball community you'd browse the baseball multi community. This way we could avoid the issue of giving one instance too much "power" and still have the convenience we crave.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Being decentralized is whats going to prevent this whole Fediverse from really taking off. Its a convoluted mess.

edit: glitch made me triple post

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Which may also, inturn, keep it from turning into reddit or, god forbid, Twitter and Facebook lol. A little optimistic view I guess haha.

I think it'll sort itself out in time. I'm more concerned about the search function right now and incorporating all the instances/communities in a functional manner for new users with out needing to manually input stuff But I guess that's all apart of the federation thing.

Smoothing over some bugs is probably priority so it doesn't scare people away during this migration time.

The people/person that has to figure that out is definitely not me, that's for sure.