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What are you guys doing when there's multiple communities for the same thing across instances? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For example, I want to join a Today I learned community but when I search for it, I come across 4 of them on different instances.

What do you guys do when you see this? Join the one with the most users, join all of them?

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[–] WhoRoger 51 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Sub to all of them and wait for all but one to die out.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It would be nice if there were an app or plugin that would aggregate them into one heading or folder. So that on the user end all of the Gaming@ Lemmy.lm Gaming@ Beehaw, etc etc just show up under #Gaming on the users end. It would also improve the longevity of the smaller ones since we can already post across instances.

That said I'm an idiot and not even remotely sure how that would get set up :).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If there is not already a way to combine communities into a single feed, surely there will be soon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like the challenge with that is that is going to be moderation. (well, the challenge is always with moderation)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I mean every community moderates itself, if you don't like what one of them does, you cut it out of your feed.

It sounds exciting, imagine if mods would have to compete for shares of a topic instead of a group gatekeeping a big community.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

There is a multi-reddit issue open on github. As soon as someone actually codes it, it'll be there.

I'm trying to learn Rust atm to contribute, but very likely someone will code that up before I'm ready to actually submit pull requests and not be laughed out of the room.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just sub to the most popular one assuming it'll be the one to win out.

[–] robonps 1 points 2 years ago

Yep. It was the same issue as multiple similar subreddits on reddit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is pretty much what I expect to happen

[–] ug01x -1 points 2 years ago

This is the way

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This seems like the sane option