As a new reddit exile, I may be misunderstanding this.
In theory something like a !gaming community could crop up on multiple large instances, especially during the mass exodus while instances are getting hammered with spikes in volume.
If that’s the case, we’ll have fragmented communities across instances. Is there any way besides subscribing to each of them to combine them into a sort of multi-reddit type aggregation? Or is this considered a temporary (albeit important to adoption) problem during the crazy stages?
I just sub to both if I run into a sublemmy collision where both are sizable. It is a little weird and I’d like to see some clean way to merge them in the future (i.e. with content migration and redirects), but for now it is what it is.
Now what we need are concatenated multi-communities where I can have a linkable collection of each of these overlapping subscriptions at multiple federated instances. In RES they were “multi-reddits” and they were my primary way of compartmentalizing and consuming content.
I suggested this in a different thread, but I think it would be cool to be able to create and share feeds surrounding a topic. All the posts from the communities that are included in the feed show up there, and you can share that feed with other people so they don’t need to do all the hard work of discovery themselves.
Surely the devs are already looking at something like this.
What would you call them?
I know on Kbin instances you can group feed with hashtags, which can group posts, magazines (“communities” on Lemmy), miniblogs under the same feed, and will fetch from other protocols beside Kbin and Lemmy as well. But they’re just called “tags”
Here’s my brainstorm list for grouped communities from federated instances:
Feeds
Clusters
Slices (slice:lemmings::pod:whales)
Villages
Hamlets
And/or Meta- or Mulit- prefixed to any of these…
Anyways just shouting into the void here lol. Is there a meta thread for Lemmy development? I’m not s developer so I have nothing of substance to add, just a use case to suggest as a user.
Feeds, probably. I don’t believe that there’s any meta-thread, but Lemmy does have a Matrix channel. I imagine that is where you would find that type of discussion.
#lemmy-space:matrix.org
But then you have the same problem all over again, just at a different scale. If multiple people create those feeds according to their personal tastes, how do you decide which one to use? It’s unlikely that any of them offer the content you want and nothing more, so you’d still have to tweak them to add the stuff that’s missing or remove the stuff you don’t care about. Yes, technically it’s an improvement because you no longer need to do all the work yourself, but it would still suck.
True enough. In any case, it would be beneficial from a UX standpoint to have something that lets users combine the feeds of multiple communities into one. I think there’s probably something clever that can be done (or maybe something simple, this likely doesn’t need to be overly complex) to solve this, I’m just too tired to really give it the thought it deserves.
Multireddits were actually a native Reddit feature, not an RES thing. I think something else that would help is better xposting support. Right now it basically copies a link from one community to another
I think two communities can live side-by-side and even develop their own culture. With federation, someone subscribed to both essentially has no downside right? I think forcing merges would cause some issues (like, who moderates?).
It would definitely be confusing once communities start coming up with rules for posting, like one gaming community from instance A could allow memes but gaming community from Instance B doesn’t allowes, or only allows text posts, no screenshots, etc.