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How are you managing your interaction with redundant communities? (lemmy.ml)

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

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For example, I'm on Lemmy.ml and I've joined [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected]. In this example, it's not very different from the number of similar groups on Flickr but, in comparison to Reddit, it seems like the decentralized platform can be a little unruly.

How are you going about joining different communities and managing your engagement? Are you only participating on the community on your instance? Are you joining and posting in as many instances that seem relevant?

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

My guess is the various Android & iOS clients will add this feature to combine similar communities and view all of their content together in one feed (like multireddits on reddit).

But I hope this feature is implemented at a system level in the Lemmy software itself.

I think many people may have already requested this as a feature on official GitHub issues.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To me this is basically a necessary feature of a fediverse app that wants to be similar to Reddit.

Smaller communities are fantastic, but one of the unique appeals of Reddit was that for the largest communities, they were likely one of the most populated communities for each topic available. So posting to that community ensured the broadest reach, and greatest likelihood of engagement or getting one's questions answered.

I hope we can find a federated way of providing a similar experience. Perhaps via replication between instances.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

From a user front-end standpoint, just collate all posts with identical links and then make a tabbed system for comments. Lemmy.ml comments are on this tab, kbin.social comments are on this tab, etc etc. Seems like by far the easiest way to present it without (accidentally or otherwise) force-federating all of the source material. This could even pretty easily ("easily", yeah I'll get right on that) be done within the app if not done in the lemmy/kbin source code directly.

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

Huh, never thought about it this way but it makes sense. Ultimately the URL will be identical across the different posts, and I believe a Post object has a URL field.