What we’re really lacking on the ui end is a way to see groups of identical communities that are on different federated platforms. Hence the idea of a dom-lemmy. The way it would work is lets say you search for a cat community called “cats”, there’s at least dozens of them out there already. Instead it would return the cats dom-lemmy, with the option to either drill down to a specific instance, or to merge all sub-lemmys called cats into a single view

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I don’t necessarily think that should be an automatic process—communities with the same name on different servers don’t necessarily mean the same thing (e.g., r/trees).

  • tallwookie@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    the users will organically migrate to the most popular sublemmy over time & the rest will close or be ignored.

    • NataliePortland@thegarden.land
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      2 years ago

      I sure hope not. It does seem to be leaning that way, but it would sort of defeat the purpose of decentralization right? I guess you can’t change the course of the river. I started a small instance with a focus on gardening, and it’s growing slowly. I wonder if smaller instances would grow more evenly if they were focused on regions/ countries/ cities or with a focus on topics? Either way it’s interesting! We’re just getting started here. Things are going to change. I wonder what we’ll say a year from now.

      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        I think communities will naturally move to larger subsbutt as soon as a controversial choice is made by the mods it will split off again.

        Its also important to note that all the biggest subs shouldn’t be on the same instance

  • crwcomposer@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    At first I thought this was a good idea, but now I’m not sure. Instead of encouraging the need for that sort of manual work to group every similar community for every topic, I think we should let the communities naturally converge on the winning community.

    • Kichae@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      Why does there need to be one community to rule them all? A thousand communities on a topic with a thousand users each is much better for usability than 1 community with 1 million users. More people get to actually engage with others, be seen, and be heard in smaller communities.

      Mega-communities are just white noise machines.

      • crwcomposer@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        Because if I subscribe to all of them, sometimes I will see 100 identical posts of the relevant news. And if I subscribe to just one, then I’m missing out on a lot of content.

        • Kichae@kbin.social
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          2 years ago

          You’re also missing out on a lot of content by not seeing the vast, vast majority of posts that never get noticed.

          And you’re missing all of the posts posted on Facebook groups!

          And all of the posts posted to Hacker News!

          And all of the posts on…