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?
Sub to all of them and wait for all but one to die out.
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 :).
If there is not already a way to combine communities into a single feed, surely there will be soon.
I feel like the challenge with that is that is going to be moderation. (well, the challenge is always with moderation)
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.
Yeah, this is pretty much what I expect to happen
I just sub to the most popular one assuming it’ll be the one to win out.
Yep. It was the same issue as multiple similar subreddits on reddit.
Start beef. Survival of the fittest.
Fuck beehaw. All my homies hate beehaw.
!gaming@beehaw.org > !gaming!gaming@lemmy.ml
Is this just going along with the other comment, or did beehaw actually do something hate-worthy?
Beehaw is fine, he’s just “starting beef”
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Buzz buzz, bee nice
And we can be as mean to you as we like can you can’t even downvote us.
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Next update should make the community browser a part of lemmy
Hadn’t seen https://browse.feddit.de/ before. Thanks for that!
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I join the biggest one
Same thing I did on reddit, use the more popular one.
Subbing to all of them, contributing where I can, and seeing what happens :)
Because communities on Lemmy are still in their infancy I join all of them (at least the larger ones) and will wait to see which of them gather traction.
Same!
I like the idea of different communities. A single giant “community” like reddit feels too big. Effectively no one can participate and the only content you see is the least common denominator. Ideally we’ll continue to see at least a few popular instances and not just conglomerate back to one giant instance. I think what needs to happen though is a better integration of local vs federal instances. There should be a toggle within a certain community page to see versions from other instances. Or a way to merge multiple community posts together.
I like the idea of different communities. A single giant “community” like reddit feels too big
This is a good point. Some users prefer being in a community with a lower number of subscribers. Not everyone wants to post in a community with a million users so having big and small communities for the same thing isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It gives people the choice to decide which one they want to participate in.
Right, I don’t know if anyone would want to post in a super giant community like reddit. Your post just gets lost in the void, content gets completely dumbed dumb, and no one knows anyone because there is too many users. This was a huge of appeal of the old time forums which got killed with reddit. I think the internet is going to fundamentally change.
It is surely going to be a bigger time sink and possibly more effective skinner box if I have to click back and forth between half a dozen different communities to follow different threads on stuff like breaking news or game/event threads.
I think this will ultimately be polarizing, but I also kind of think it will have a lot of really interesting side effects as it scales.
Well you don’t HAVE to go on every community to see what every single community says about something though. You can just have the couple communities you follow and check those. Likely there will just be a couple of big communities for each topic, not dozens. What might happen even is that you have certain instances specializing in certain topics. You might have left wing and right political instances for example, so you’d just check the 1-2 instances you follow.
Each instance would effectively become analogous to the old time forums.
Like I said though, there is also the possibility of merging content from different instances into a single page.
I think it depends on the community. For entertainment stuff like videos, anime, memes, etc. I’d prefer a bunch of smaller ones. But hobby type communities, where you aren’t only looking at newest posts, I’d rather one big organized community.
For instance, if I want to buy some new headphones then is would be a pain to have to look through 6 different instances for a stickied reccomendation thread.
That’s actually a great point. Haven’t really done much posting on reddit for the past couple of years but really enjoy the more intimate feel of lemmy atm. We’ll see how it all pans out but I yearn for the old phpbb days of the internet :D
They should treat it like hashtags on mastodon.
Anyone can post to a #communityname. Local mods are responsible for content from their instance. If an instance doesn’t weed out shit posts, other instances can stop importing its content.
I’m hoping this gets addressed with a super-community / “multi Reddit” type feature eventually. But that wouldn’t really address how posting works. You would still need to drop it into a single community. But maybe it could encourage spreading content around similar communities.
You can add your post to the tagged Lemmy communities by tagging them like so: @!community@lemmyinstance.
Shout-out to @mrpresidenttom@mastodon.social for posting this tip.
*Edit: don’t forget to start it with the ! And type slowly. A drop-down list will appear as you type.
*Edit 2: I think I’m doing it wrong because I’m not seeing it post in the linked community, but here’s the post I this from.
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I sub to them all, and then order the communities to fight each other. The last community standing is the winner. Surprisingly, none of this has ever happened yet.
I just keep an eye on all of them.
Eventually this whole thing will sort itself out and the snowball effect will see some communities get bigger while others fall to the wayside. It’s a natural progression.I just subscribe to both of them, the more mindless scroll content, the better >:D
Join all of them of course.
I just subscribe to all of them. And I feel it’s worth pointing out that this was a thing on Reddit too. I often saw the same post on two or three different subreddits I was subscribed to. Eg. I was subscribed to both CanadaPolitics and Ontario, so Ontario politics stuff often appeared twice. Three times if it was local Ottawa news that made provincial and national headlines.
