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Is it worthwhile to try to get mods to combine them? It just seems like a bit of a waste when trying to grow a community and its split in two.

Or is this what the fediverse is supposed to look like?

I read before somebody said that we might be able to combine similar communities at some point but don't know if that's true.

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[–] ebits21 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

We need a feature to combine several communities into a group that we can follow in our subscriptions.

Then it wouldn’t matter anyway.

See this feature request on Github.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My suggestion on GitHub was to let instance admin create a local /g/ grouping, with the freedom in how they utilise a /g/ group.

Some people argued that they should be able to make it per account, like a multireddit, but the point was for new and general users having easier access to broader fediverse content.

The instance admin would only need to do some legwork at first, then they could add to it as they go along. The barrier of entry for new users finding which communities outside of their instance is substantial.

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

Idk if it needs to be a server side thing or if it could be client-side

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah. I think this is a good solution. It's then up to the user to decide if they want to combine or not.

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

What would be the difference then between subscribing to, say, 10 different communities separately, or a group of 10 communities?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

If there are 5 different instances with the same community, to subscribe to all of them you have to go find them all.

If kbin had a feature to combine them in groups like this, when you went to subscribe to one version of the community, it could let you subscribe to all of them at once. Without having to hunt them down.