Communities not existing on all instances is a big problem.
Example, Lemmy.ml and Lemmy.world have duplicate communities aren't connected at all. So we are artificially isolating groups more and making it confusing for would be converts.
Short and too the point
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aubeynarf
in reply to Sackeshi • • •Lemmy.ml seems to have a clone of most of the “top reddits”, somehow the most subscribed communities out there, and all dominated by one or two posters who post pro-China/pro-DPRK/anti-Western content all day long.
It definitely is going to confuse newcomers and make a bad first impression. I wonder if they auto subscribe people to those so their propaganda ends up at the top of the communities list.
Part of the solution is to better inform new users the part of the community name is the host, just like Main St in one city is different from Main St in another city. You choose the city you want to live in first.
But, it may also be interesting to have the ability for admins to selectively merge like-named communities with other agreeable instance admins, and count subscribers to both as one group.
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Blaze (he/him)
in reply to Sackeshi • • •Piefed feeds: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/38733273
A few options
- piefed.social/ - flagship instance
- piefed.zip/ - lemmy.zip team
- piefed.ca/ - lemmy.ca team
- feddit.online/
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in reply to Björn Tantau • • •Doesn't mbin already have that?
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in reply to snooggums • • •Piefed feeds: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/38733273
A few options
- piefed.social/ - flagship instance
- piefed.zip/ - lemmy.zip team
- piefed.ca/ - lemmy.ca team
- feddit.online/
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Die4Ever
in reply to Sackeshi • • •I think there's a misunderstanding?
You can use remote communities, for example: !linux@lemmy.ml for you is
https://old.lemmy.world/c/linux@lemmy.ml
the "Old" UI seems to hide the list of communities, but it's here: old.lemmy.world/communities
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celeste
in reply to Sackeshi • • •It's valuable for .ml to have duplicates since certain instances and numerous individuals are defederated from them. There are also people who are trying to diversify the fediverse by moving communities off .world. Big, opinionated communities like the different news communities are going to spawn new versions as people disagree with mod decisions or the background culture and feel they can't have the conversations they want.
Some splitting is inevitable, imo, and healthy, though whether it's good in this or that particular case is a useful conversation to have. Merging communities is also useful, but only when it makes sense (one is barely moderated or barely used, or people have defederated from an instance one is on because of spam, etc.)
I think it's a case by case basis type situation.
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in reply to Sackeshi • • •Piefed solves that issue: piefed.zip/post/100161
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A few options
- piefed.social/ - flagship instance
- piefed.zip/ - lemmy.zip team
- piefed.ca/ - lemmy.ca team
- feddit.online/
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in reply to yessikg • • •rglullis
in reply to Sackeshi • • •One of the things that I'm experimenting with is to have "communities that can follow communities". So, if community A follows community B, then it can re-post anything that has happened on Community B.
If you do it "properly", it doesn't even need to be a lot of data duplication because the "follower" community would just be creating
Announce
activities.The only thing that is making me hold out on this experiment is because I am 100% sure that some people will see their posts on a community they never interacted on and they will panic on the grounds of "mah privacy" or something silly like that.
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julian
in reply to rglullis • • •Re: Communities not existing on all instances is a big problem.
Hi! We should chat.
NodeBB also does this, and currently still does. A category (group actor) can follow another category (also a group actor).
It essentially is synchronization of categories using 1b12.
Proof of concept does work but it needs reworking in some ways. The largest issue is that Lemmy itself doesn't understand when a group actor tries to follow a community.
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lambalicious
in reply to rglullis • • •Don't hold out out of that. There are idiots everywhere and they should not be taken as a good driving force for anything.
Half the point of the Fediverse is that your activity is public. It's the entire point of why have activity with a community or instance in the first place. Heck, it's "kinda" the name of the protocol: "ActivityPub".
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