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duplicate communities on lemmy instances is not a good trend (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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what's stopping 8 different instances from hosting a 'politics', 'funny', 'fediverse', community?

these duplicate communities defeat the goal to replace reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing, and that prevents one instance to claim a specific community. Time will filter out the best of those similar communities.

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

I’d like to see a live replication kind of thing. So if you’re on [email protected] it can merge with [email protected] and they super federate and advertise that this group exists, replicated, on four or five lemmy servers and the client tracks that every X hours and knows what the failovers are.

Solves some of the fragmentation issues and the backup/archive issues at the same time. Might even help with load balancing a bit if we have some kind of routing algo on the endpoints.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I know all the contributors have a lot more bigger fish to fry this week, but I'd love to see this eventually implemented - this would be a huge quality of life feature that I think would really sell the platform to new users dipping their toes with Lemmy.