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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

An excellent article, thanks for posting!

That means if all the pancake communities are following each other, I can post on [email protected] and it would show up on the other pancake communities as well, and the comments would simply be grouped into just one post!

The "communities following communities" seems like quite an elegant solution. Kind of like federating between communities in addition to instances. I wonder what the chances are that we'll see this implemented?

For now, I suppose we'll just have to continue with old-fashioned merging...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That's more like Proposal 2, and doesn't actually solve the main issues with duplicate communities. Proposal 3 solves them quite elegantly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You seem to like it, but for me the biggest issue is that it's not going to happen any time soon.

Merging communities can be done now, as you are well aware 😄

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

the biggest issue is that it’s not going to happen any time soon

Yes, Lemmy development is slow, but Proposal 3 seems like such an elegant solution to me that I think it is worth striving for. There's also no reason all three Proposals can't be pursued in parallel, as they each have their own use cases.

Merging communities can be done now, as you are well aware

Yes, but it's a bit of a pain, as you are also aware :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

There’s also no reason all three Proposals can’t be pursued in parallel, as they each have their own use cases.

Definitely!

Aware

Oh yeah 😄