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Super-communities? (lemmy.ml)

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

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An idea that just occurred to me. I was looking for communities on machine learning to join, so I searched https://browse.feddit.de/ and found a bunch. They don't have much content but together they have at least 4 or 5 posts each, which adds up to a few posts, so I subscribed to all of them.

However, now I have no way of "grouping" them so that I can view posts of all communities in my feed related to the topic of machine learning.

I was wondering if some concept of "super communities" could be interesting for Lemmy, similar to "multireddits". People could curate their collection of favourite communities around a topic, over multiple instances, and users could easily subscribe and browse the whole bunch of them.

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[–] worldofbirths 6 points 1 year ago

This would be great! I would rather a steady feed of memes than multiple trickles.

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

There is an active discussion about this already on github. Definitely agree that it would be a nice feature to have.

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

Nice, only 3 days old too. Great minds think alike :P

Thanks for pointing that out to me.

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

Over time they will probably merge, either explicitly or simple because one of them gains more traction than the others.

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

I wholeheartedly agree with your idea. Being able to group similar communities would be very useful.

Personally, I think having multiple smaller community like it is now can be a good thing. It helps distribute the load of resources across different instances and minimizes damage if any instance/community becomes problematic. With how most instances can communicate and participate with each other, I think the fragmentation shouldn't be a big deal, and having some sort of way to organize subscription will be very helpful in this case.