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Redundant communities across instances (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 2 years ago by bfr0 to c/lemmyworld

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As a new reddit exile, I may be misunderstanding this.

In theory something like a !gaming community could crop up on multiple large instances, especially during the mass exodus while instances are getting hammered with spikes in volume.

If that's the case, we'll have fragmented communities across instances. Is there any way besides subscribing to each of them to combine them into a sort of multi-reddit type aggregation? Or is this considered a temporary (albeit important to adoption) problem during the crazy stages?

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

I think a good solution would be to split popular communities across instances to balance the load on the servers. Also you could have stubs that say the community is actually located at xyz etc.

[–] Brickhead92 4 points 2 years ago

Also in the description of each community they could update it to add links to the other communities on other instances so that people can subscribe to them as well. Though that'll make more work for mods to update it, and for users to actually connect to new ones as they pop up.

[–] SacredHeartAttack 4 points 2 years ago

I also would love to know the answer to this.

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

@bfr0 There were also multiple gaming communities within reddit, lets face it. Can't herd people all into one place even if there's only one website they'll find a way to schism

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

in b4 the meta "redundant posts about redundant communities across the fediverse" post 🙃

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