this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
205 points (97.7% liked)
Lemmy.World Announcements
29042 readers
2 users here now
This Community is intended for posts about the Lemmy.world server by the admins.
Follow us for server news ๐
Outages ๐ฅ
https://status.lemmy.world
For support with issues at Lemmy.world, go to the Lemmy.world Support community.
Support e-mail
Any support requests are best sent to [email protected] e-mail.
Report contact
- DM https://lemmy.world/u/lwreport
- Email [email protected] (PGP Supported)
Donations ๐
If you would like to make a donation to support the cost of running this platform, please do so at the following donation URLs.
If you can, please use / switch to Ko-Fi, it has the lowest fees for us
Join the team
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
At first I thought this was a good idea, but now I'm not sure. Instead of encouraging the need for that sort of manual work to group every similar community for every topic, I think we should let the communities naturally converge on the winning community.
Why does there need to be one community to rule them all? A thousand communities on a topic with a thousand users each is much better for usability than 1 community with 1 million users. More people get to actually engage with others, be seen, and be heard in smaller communities.
Mega-communities are just white noise machines.
Because if I subscribe to all of them, sometimes I will see 100 identical posts of the relevant news. And if I subscribe to just one, then I'm missing out on a lot of content.
You're also missing out on a lot of content by not seeing the vast, vast majority of posts that never get noticed.
And you're missing all of the posts posted on Facebook groups!
And all of the posts posted to Hacker News!
And all of the posts on...
Okay, but I see no reason to intentionally make that issue worse.
And I see no reason to turn spaces that can be used for meaningful activity into ones that can't be.
I'm not saying those spaces can't be used. Ideally each instance would end up with its own set of popular communities that have become the one true community. But it's a much better user experience if every instance doesn't have all of the communities from every other instance duplicated.
It would be more resilient if it is distributed too, if 1 of 100 instances was temporarily offline the Mega-Magazine (or whatever you want to call it) would still function with 99% of the content.
@crwcomposer
@KittyCat
There is an issue around this on the lemmy GitHub. One ide I liked from that discussion was allowing community mods to subscribe to other communites via tags.
Like that way all the star trek communities that have the same tag could share content, and it would not depend on matching the community names in some automated way.
kbin is planning on something like multi-reddits: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/65 maybe lemmy could too