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Why don't you read the issue? It's in lemmy-ui, so it's clearly client-side. So just because you want to waste your time going through hundreds of instances to find similar communities, do we have to force everyone else to do the same?
Maybe don't take disagreement so personally?
I too would like to do this myself and not have AI or anyone else decide for me what content gets lumped together.
I predict that this is also an issue that will slowly resolve itself over time, as critical masses of users gradually coalesce around one community, or more...but only if the extras are distinct in some way...which would very specifically be made more difficult by the sort of programming you're proposing.
I'm not saying there's no merit in your suggestion, only that it may not be the one-size-fits-all solution that you seem to think it is
Not taking it personally.
I would also appreciate the ability to customize, but it would be helpful to begin with a curated list of instances for each topic.
But who gets to curate that? How who has to sift through all of the 8000 instances and figures out the topic of each of likely thiusands of communities?
Automated sounds as though it's purely based off of the community name? How does it figure out the difference between table top gaming or video gaming or even slots/gambling?
What about football? American or the rest of the world?
What about politics? Is it left wing or right wing?
Seems like a cool idea at first, but when you get into the weeds it becomes a pretty complicated issue.