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community consolidation (self.lemmyworld)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by MasterBlaster to c/lemmyworld
 

As lemmy grows organically, there will be continuous increases in duplicate communities. This poses a long-term problem because I don't think most people want to subscribe to half a dozen or more communities that are essentially the same.

Is there any chance that the thought leaders of Lemmy which probably includes the largest servers owners could come together and start proposing ideas?

I see a potential troubling issue with the idea in terms of combining the existing history of the duplicates communities.

Perhaps a new concept of community@global could be thought through.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Community replication & redirects probably need to become a thing to allow for smooth merges. As of today, if two communities want to merge, one is going to lose all of its history on their new instance. At best the smaller community sticks around its original instance, permanently locked down with a stickied post telling users to go to the new instance.