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Lemmy Needs to Fix Its Community Separation Problem (popcar.bearblog.dev)

submitted 22 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

About #1 (merging communities): to a certain extent users already do this. Nothing stops you from locking [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) with a pinned thread like "go to [[email protected]](/c/[email protected])".

If you aren't already the moderator of n-1 communities on a multitude of instances, there are some pretty significant challenges:

Find all the communities on a given topic (easy)
Convince people that consolidation is a good idea (difficult)
Get people, many of whom are reluctant to see a community on their home instance locked, to decide on a which community to switch to (sometimes impossible)
Contact the moderators (or the admins, if the mods are inactive) of each of the n-1 communities and get them to lock each community, with appropriate links to the decided upon community (tedious)

It's a right pain-in-the-ass to do properly, and I've had many more failures than I've had successes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

It’s a right pain-in-the-ass to do properly, and I’ve had many more failures than I’ve had successes.

Same experience here