For the unaware, Lemmy is a Fediverse alternative to platforms such as Reddit and Tildes. I've been using Lemmy as one of my main social platforms for the pa...

I made a blog post on my biggest issue in Lemmy and the proposed solutions for it. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

  • pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I personally don’t think this is a huge issue, but it is an issue. I usually pick the biggest community on a topic, or if there are multiple that are fairly active, subscribe to both/all. The only real complaint I have about it is that users will often make the same post to both communities, so I see duplicate posts on my timeline and the discussion is split in half.

    I do think it would be nice if there was a way for community mods to choose to combine two communities across instances, in a way that they would appear as a single community to users. I don’t know how that would be implemented though.

    • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      I do think it would be nice if there was a way for community mods to choose to combine two communities across instances,

      If they are willing to cooperate that far, they could as well merge the communities

      • pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        That’s true. I guess I like the idea of being able to distribute a community across servers, but it may be more trouble than it’s worth to implement.

      • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        10 months ago

        And then the users who were in the moved-from server but are defederated from the moved-to server get automatically banne d/ blocked from it.

        Thanks but no thanks. Sharing is the solution, not merging. Merging is the solution that corporate sells for every problem.