Lemmy tends to have duplicate communities between different instances for many subjects, and this can make it hard to find information here. For instance, if i want to know if anyone has made a constructed language for birds, i have to go to the communities list and search for “conlang” and “constructed language”, open every relevant community i find, and search each of those.

The Lemmy search feature quite good, but having all the knowledge about one topic on one community makes it even better

There is a GitHub issue, but no planned deadline: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

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[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Where consolidation makes sense it's always good. But part of what makes Lemmy special is that there's multiple communities about different subjects. For example Technology. I don't fuck with the LW community at all, but I'm a regular poster in the BH community and regularly post in the more technical PD community. If all were consolidated it would alienate me as I don't actually wanna deal with a bunch of people that post in the biggest communities. It's also why I subscribe to communities and avoid the ALL feed.

I feel you're making a dangerous assumption where you feel everyone should want to be part of a centralised community and that's not what Lemmy is about. Sometimes smaller communities just wanna be that.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Oh, I definitely agree!

Technology is a very widely discussed topic on Lemmy, so having different communities makes sense.

I was more thinking about the case above. I don't think conlangs have enough of a user base to split across different communities, with adding hurdles to search for content about that topic on top.