Over the past few days, I’ve witnessed a remarkable surge in the number of communities on browse.feddit.de. What started with 2k communities quickly grew to 4k, and now it has reached an astonishing 8k. While this exponential growth signifies a thriving platform, it also brings forth challenges such as increased fragmentation and the emergence of echo chambers. To tackle these issues, I propose the implementation of a Cross-Instance Automatic Multireddit feature within Lemmy. This feature aims to consolidate posts from communities with similar topics across all federated instances into a centralized location. By doing so, we can mitigate community fragmentation, counter the formation of echo chambers, and ultimately foster stronger community engagement. I welcome any insights or recommendations regarding the optimal implementation of this feature to ensure its effectiveness and success.
Or just make it user-side. Let users create their own feed combinations. They’d still have to select a specific instance for posts.
Feeds would be consolidated but posts and comments will still be federated. And one user will be unaffected by how another user organizes their feed.
That seems like a good solution. Let me subscribe to a half dozen different game comms and put them together into one “games” list that shows up with pretty much the same interface as a single community, so I can browse just “games” content that I have subscribed to.
having subscribed to multiple games communities, the issue then becomes content duplication; the same trailer or article will get posted in three different communities, and I don’t actually want to see it three times in my feed. I’m not sure there’s a good way to solve that, though.
(I’m subscribed to multiple communities b/c I’m not sure which one will have the largest comments sections, and those are what I’m really interested in.)