Yeah, obviously dub is a superior format to sub.

Federate me, daddy! 👄

Same here. I think people put undue meaning on the idea of having one single canonical correct place for a topic. Classic FOMO.

I sure hope not. It does seem to be leaning that way, but it would sort of defeat the purpose of decentralization right? I guess you can’t change the course of the river. I started a small instance with a focus on gardening, and it’s growing slowly. I wonder if smaller instances would grow more evenly if they were focused on regions/ countries/ cities or with a focus on topics? Either way it’s interesting! We’re just getting started here. Things are going to change. I wonder what we’ll say a year from now.

In the days before Reddit 'won' you used to be able to find tons of niche sites/boards cultivating smaller audiences. Beer advocate/rate beer, headfi and whatever the latest splinter was there in the audiophile community both come to mind. There's generally more division by which each might find more 'aligned' or maybe their friends are on one first.

I don't know if it's possible to predict, social dynamics are weird and this is going to be new for a giant segment of the audience.

My understanding is that here on kbin, a magazine can set a list of tags and toots using that tag will show up in their microblog feed.

Which is a bit different, but cool

Something like the user tags on Steam games could work well: give the users the ability to submit and vote on tags, give the moderators/admins the ability to remove and blacklist ones they don't like, and let the community sort everything as they see fit. Searching and displaying them could then be "show me everything with the tags "cute AND (cats OR dogs)"

Respectfully, I disagree Mistress.

How about "umbrellemmy"?

But it does kinda make it more fun ;)

Agreed, but I'd like to be able to at least manually group together communities that are related.

For sure, but it'd be cool to be able to bundle them as an option.

/r/superbowl comes to mind.

The way sports league ~~subs~~ magazines or whatever handle it is the greater league magazine, and then each team has their own team-specific place. It largely in effect already; you have the overarching "video games" sub and then specific games usually have their own sub for game-specific updates (here is what a vendor is selling today, build discussion, etc).

The issue with federated would be each instance is likely to have their own "parent" sub, with the specific ones probably falling to whatever instance has the established population.

It would be helpful, I think, for these "default" subs to have like a repository of sorts. Large topic subs all contribute to the same silo, and instances can pick what interactive content they get from the instances regarding comments and such. But that sorta defeats the de-federation tactics by link and article posts, but I imagine attack posts probably wouldn't fly in the vast majority of instances.

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.

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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