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What are you guys doing when there's multiple communities for the same thing across instances? (lemmy.ml)

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

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For example, I want to join a Today I learned community but when I search for it, I come across 4 of them on different instances.

What do you guys do when you see this? Join the one with the most users, join all of them?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I like the idea of different communities. A single giant "community" like reddit feels too big. Effectively no one can participate and the only content you see is the least common denominator. I think what needs to happen though is a better integration of local vs federal instances. There should be a toggle within a certain community page to see versions from other instances.

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

It is surely going to be a bigger time sink and possibly more effective skinner box if I have to click back and forth between half a dozen different communities to follow different threads on stuff like breaking news or game/event threads.

I think this will ultimately be polarizing, but I also kind of think it will have a lot of really interesting side effects as it scales.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well you don't HAVE to go on every community to see what every single community says about something though. You can just have the couple communities you follow and check those. Likely there will just be a couple of big communities for each topic, not dozens. What might happen even is that you have certain instances specializing in certain topics. You might have left wing and right political instances for example, so you'd just check the 1-2 instances you follow.

Each instance would effectively become analogous to the old time forums.

Like I said though, there is also the possibility of merging content from different instances into a single page.

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