everyone in both those comment sections are talking about how bad of a choice this is LOL.
dmmeyournudes
joined 2 years ago
Who said anything about language barriers?
you did.
It is perfectly okay to have completely different discussions around the same link
thats not whats happening. you're either getting the same comments in all places or you're arbitrarily preventing people from commenting all in 1 place to prop up this guise of "freedom" that exists at the will of the instance admins.
Were not talking about language barriers, were talking about people building arbitrary walls where none are needed. There is 0 reson that there are over a dozen "technology" communities. If there was simply 1 community to focus on these topics the whole place would function much more smoothly. The core problems with Lemmy is that all of the communities are fragmented and spread out, by force of the admins too. This means small communities will never get populated unless a massive monolithic instance comes about to dwarf the rest. Right now, the largest video game communities on the internet don't get even a post a day. The only things that get traction here are politics, tech, and memes, because they are the most universal topics that can be minimally sustained on any online platform. Until the users and admins of Lemmy realize they need to agnosticize content, communities, and users from instances, this place will crumble under its fundamental framework. We need to be like email, and let the users build their spaces, not the few who decide to host the servers.
its not a UI issue when there are comments from 10 different communities.
tell that to everyone else. shit like this will make all even more useless than it already is.
and that isn't how any platform works. this deliberate fragmentation will continue to kill lemmy's potential and means any small coms will never get populated.
unless communities and users become agnostic to instances, this problem will never be solvable. also defederation makes this virtually impossible.
wtf do the bots have to do with this? the issue is that multiple communities are all talking about the same article in many different places when they should be all talking about it in 1.
goalposts get heavy after a while.
why is being like reddit a bad thing? it's the best link aggregator on the internet. until new released the site was great. imagine not wanting a link aggregator like reddit before they made their own app and doomed the UX to modernized oblivion.