So... user-curated default subs. Probably less relevant on lemmy because communities aren't as fine-grained as following individual users but I don't think we even have instance-wide default subs, just the all feed.

A "people who joined your communities also joined these communities" mechanic would also be a good idea I think. Run dimensionality reduction over the data once a fortnight and just give people the results, that is, tell them which bubble they're in.

[–] mojofrododojo 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

something like this:
https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps
but for lemmy would be nice

it'd basically solve the issue of duplicate communities too

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it’d basically solve the issue of duplicate communities too

There's no "issue" with duplicate communities. There's an issue with Reddit users wanting there to be a single canonical home for a topic on a local-first distributed network of websites.

This isn't Reddit. This isn't like Reddit. It doesn't operate like Reddit. It just kinda looks like Reddit. And maybe it shouldn't, because it anchors people's expectations and prevents them from embracing something truly new and different.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I've used lemmy exclusively for almost 1.5 years and I still think the duplicate communities thing could be better, lemmy is small so we might as well maximise the amount of content accessible.

I don't want all of them to merge, I just think it should be easier for people to subscribe to all of the communities about similar topics