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lemmy.ml/c/piracy and lemmy.world/c/piracy do not show the same content. This a problem. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A user checking out one of these URLs does not want to filter only local post on that instance.

On all instances, this url should mean "show me all /c/piracy on all federated instances"

If you really mean /c/piracy only on that instance, then add something to the url.

The current convention breaks the most important aspect of federation and makes its vestigial appendage.

The current way has user asking question /c/piracy, but on which instance ?

So now they'll all join the same instance . You wouldn't post anywhere else since no one would every see it.

It's a recipe for centralization.

I think this is obvious to most users, were deal with "voat with extra steps" here

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1113

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

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

I also made one

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1674

I see they tried the multireddit approach.

But how do you make a multireddit of all instances, that's an impossible task to ask each and every single user to build on their own.

It is too complicated and will likely remain a pie in the sky.

Reddit implemented it but it required user action to use, so in practice it was as if it did not exist at all.

I don't believe even 1% of current reddit users know this feature exists.

Now imagine this on lemmy. You are posting to lemmy.reallyobscure3userinstance.com/c/piracy

How many of the lemmy /c/piracy browsing user base would have the multireddit that could possibly even see you ? It's going to be a vanishingly small number.

It would be the same as if the feature did not exist at all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think #1113 is the best solution, but for the time being it's just a technical limitation of the platform unfortunately.

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

But, even if that were the compromise solution (which reddit did and it failed)

We would end up with URLs like (see below)

And the problem is that if you post on https://lemmy.mytinyinstance.com/c/mycommunity , not 1% of 1% of 1% of 1% of the lemmy userbase could even see it unless they include you specifically in their, presumably hand-curated multilemmy list

Like on reddit the end result is that posters on https://lemmy.mytinyinstance.com/c/mycommunity never get seen, they might not have posted at all, they might have posted in lemmy.ml/c/mycommunity

Example multilemmy URL, if the feature even worked

and it is massively incomplete

and massively out of date

and whoever compiles this URL, gets to choose who to exclude

Lemmy URL for multireddit-like /c/mycommunity (trunkated here because body text limit, we're not even 1/10 of the way to the end)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I think the solution proposed in #1113 addresses the concerns you're talking about.