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I think the multiple communities of the same topic across different instances is a mistake honestly. Information/discussion should be concentrated, not spread about a bunch of places.
I read on here they are working on a method that would allow communities across instances to merge. I hope that happens.
Imo, federation should mean the same communities are replicated across all instances. If an instance wants to house its own content, they can maybe make a community that isn’t replicated to all the others but accessible nonetheless by everyone (ie Piracy community, maybe not every instance owner wants to replicate that to their instance).
I dunno, the bifurcation of communities just seems like a mistake and less efficient than everyone in the same place sharing knowledge and ideas.
Having multiple communities in different instances for the same topic is a controversial topic that I haven't yet settled on an opinion about. However, what I'm talking about here is that the content for the same community shows different across various instances. That seems very broken to me
There are two things in play here. One is that beehaw has lemmy.world defederated due to high moderation volume, so that connection is broken. This is part of how federation works and is to some extent inevitable. Because it's splitting community userbases, however, I do think that defederation decisions can be more fraught on lemmy than they are on Mastodon in some ways. The only solutions here are, either the moderation load is reduced to the point beehaw refederates, or moderation tools improve to make it easier for them to manage the load, or you migrate to an instance that isn't defederated.
I do think it strongly incentivizes mainstream community creators to set up shop on instances that are both large and well-moderated, to make it the most likely that the most users will be able to access that community. (Because other instances won't want to defederate.)
The other thing is that some servers that are federated still have issues with comments getting lost. This is a technical issue that is supposed to be improved with the new version of Lemmy. How I see it manifest on blahaj is that with some of the busier servers, especially lemmy.world and lemmy.ml, some comments never make it over to blahaj.
There is a workaround, sort of, which is that if I search for a specific comment by URL, that alerts blahaj to its existence, and then it appears. But I have to know the comment exists and care enough to go the trouble.
Can't disagree more.
There's a very toxic dynamic on Reddit that many people don't want to acknowledge. Once a space hits a certain threshold of users, discussions die, and everything switches to bids for attention. These bids don't further anything but further bids for attention.
I dunno about this. I REALLY like the idea of fragmenting the whole user base. When a community gets too big it ceases to be a community.
Why does the whole internet need to see then same content, and be a collective hivemind?
Whats wrong with the current user size we have on this current community? Id even argue its too big already. If it blows up by 100x we run back to having posts with 10k replies, 20 or so which everyone will read. Its a really dumb system
We need a lemmy client that has the option to "merge" communities of different instances on the app level.
There's already a Lemmy issue for that. Presumably one for Kbin too, though I'm not aware of it specifically at this point.