this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2025
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- https://lemmy-federate.com/ to federate your community to a lot of instances
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Fully agree with solution three, federated communities is the way. Solution two is just dumb and is basically just the subbed feed
I still think multi-communities would be a good feature, even if not for this particular problem. (For example, to a have a dedicated "music" feed that includes several communities for different music styles you are interested in.)
But if you sub to all of them then there is zero need for such a feed. It adds extra work of making the feed and having to select the feed. There is barely enough content for viewing subscribed my new, why split a post or two a day into a separate feed?
i literally just want it to work like it does on matrix: a room (community in this instance) is an independent thing that exists on all servers with users participating in it, and then each server can also assign aliases to the rooms (communities) like how we assign domain names to IP addresses, of which the room (community) admins can set one to be the main alias which is generally displayed in UIs.
so a community called "bagels stacked on dogs" could have aliases like #bagelsondogs:lemmy.chat, #bageldogs:lemmy.chat, #bagelsondogs:discuss.dogchat.com, #bagelson:dogs.net, etc etc and the community admins would of course want to set #bagelson:dogs.net to be the main way to reference the community.
How would modding work on that? I'm not sure I fully understand.
it works exactly like it does now, afaik
So it’s essentially federated communities?
i'm pretty sure communities are federated right now, it's just that they only have a single ID which can never change. I think the way acitivitypub works it's basically just posting to different "topics" under the hood?