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One of the biggest issues I'm having trouble getting past with Lemmy is not knowing which communities to subscribe to.

An example, if there are like 10+ different communities for "technology", do I really have to subscribe to all of them just to get the same experience I would have gotten on /r/technology?

Is there a way to "clump" these communities together so I can just subscribe to one "multi-community" that houses the posts from all of them?

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[โ€“] HangoverTuesday 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or it'll get you a dozen dupes of every submission.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Let's give Lemmy time to evolve a bit. Maybe they'll add a feature like "if you see a post from multiple communities all to the same URL and posted within 5 hours of each other, only show me the post with the most upvotes/comments. Hide the rest."

There might be issues with that idea, but it's AN idea, and who knows maybe they'll come up with an even better idea. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

As Lemmy grows, communities on certain servers will die out and some will accumulate all the users. I think the problem will die out eventually.

Though, I think there should be some way to migrate users of a community to a new server. Sounds hard to implement but maybe doable.