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Redundant communities across instances (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 1 year ago by bfr0 to c/lemmyworld

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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?

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[–] CannaVet 153 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (52 children)

This is that part where people trying to bail on Reddit need to remember that this is NOT Reddit. Lemmy is similar to Reddit but is not designed to replace Reddit as a SINGULAR centralized entity ^hence, yknow, all the decentralized talk.^

If you only want one server, with one set of communities, there are alternatives in the works. If you want to use Lemmy, you need to shift your expectations. The entire point here is that while one c/aww may "win," you can still have your own c/aww on your instance as a completely separate entity that can be ran and moderated differently by different people, and person C can have their own c/aww again independent of the others.

You can follow one, you can follow all, but they remain separate communities on separate instances.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I like to think of it as a bunch of Discord servers (in a way). Each server is run by the owner / their moderation and can have different channels and rules in said server.

The idea of a "super community" doesnt seem like a bad one, but I'd rather have it be an aggregation of said communities then making it all one thing.

... Like maybe super list of c/aww communities that you can subscribe to at once.

[–] possibleHipster 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just want to say thanks for this discord analogy. It is way more accurate and effective than that "email" analogy I've been seeing

[–] c0mbatbag3l 4 points 1 year ago

Email explains how instances work really well, since an email domain functions like how instances tagging does.

Communities are a different story, there isn't a good analogue to that.

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