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I think you are missing the point of Lemmy if you think it's "too decentralized". Too many Reddit refugees are eager to bend Lemmy into some kind of Reddit-shaped clone and failed to realize the differences are mostly intentional.
I actually think that multiple communities about the same topic isn't as big of an issue as most people make it out to be. If two "competing" communities grows to be large enough you will eventually get the similar content and it doesn't really matter which one you sub to, unless of course if one is "toxic" then the choice is clear. And you can always sub to both.
I don't disagree with you, but I think it would be cool if communities could federate too. If I'm subscribed to [email protected], it would be neat if baseball served up posts from all communities that they choose to associate with. Otherwise I would never know that there's a sports-only instance out there that also has a huge baseball following.
It would be nice if a moderator could set a community/magazine's to also display threads from other trusted communities on different instances
This is exactly what I mean. Decentralization requires better tools to bring content to the users. Having to manually search is not going to help lemmy get the critical mass it needs.
Honestly, some of this can be kludged by mods working together, or at least not guarding their turf too jealously. Simply putting the other communities in the sidebar could be a start. We don't HAVE to wait for an algorithm to share knowledge, or let the lack of perfect tools be the enemy of good
ones.