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Redundant communities across instances (lemmy.world)

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

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As a new reddit exile, I may be misunderstanding this.

In theory something like a !gaming community could crop up on multiple large instances, especially during the mass exodus while instances are getting hammered with spikes in volume.

If that's the case, we'll have fragmented communities across instances. Is there any way besides subscribing to each of them to combine them into a sort of multi-reddit type aggregation? Or is this considered a temporary (albeit important to adoption) problem during the crazy stages?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a nothing burger. Who cares if there's a hundred different cat instances. That's already what it was.

There can only be one orange cat instance? Give it a fucking break

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I largely agree with you, there's already redundant subreddits and such.

But I think when we're trying to capture a ton of Reddit users, anything that represents a hurdle to new user adoption is a concern. That goes double for things that are intrinsic to the Fediverse that aren't intuitive to new users like myself.

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

We don't need to become reddit though, reddit is the problem. There is something about how it's structured that encourages toxicity. I would be more concerned about keeping these communities positive and welcoming. We don't need to make it inviting to all of reddit... I'm sure I'm not the only one that would rather see hurdles for entry than open floodgates for the kind of stuff that was making even the nicest and sanest of people into crazy assholes. My outlook has completely changed since leaving that cesspool and I'm actually horrified by how nihilistic it had made me. The world is a mess but reddit is worse.