Fedigrow

1185 readers

122 users here now

To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks

Resources:

https://lemmy-federate.com/ to federate your community to a lot of instances
[email protected] to organize overall fediverse growth
[email protected] to keep tabs on where new users might come from :)

Rules

Be respectful
No bigotry

founded 11 months ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Another argument to consolidate specific topic communities: search (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

18 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Didn't think about it before, but saw this thread: https://lemmy.world/post/26747873

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Consolidated communities only help if people are able to find them reliably and many of the users are brand new and struggle with the transition.

That's also what I try to do with the pinned post on [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Posts like that are a great resource. Thanks for all the time and energy you put into promoting this place. It's certainly appreciated.

Part of the problem is we're fighting an uphill battle. After decades of preaching to people on the internet to use the search we've given them one that often can't actually find things for them without some fiddling. New and smaller instances are particularly prone to this. If the goal is being interconnected as a feature we need better ways to make that connection user friendly and automatic.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Happy to help. And yes, definitely agree.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

In a perfect world where traffic and hosting costs didn't matter it would be handy to integrate the lemmyverse results into lemmy instances when a local user searches for something. With an option to toggle it on/off from the admin panel you'd be able to cover federated and private instances that wanted local only search. I'm sure someone more technical than me could figure it out pretty easily, but that's a lot of traffic to absorb for lemmyverse.net.