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Lemmy Needs to Fix Its Community Separation Problem (popcar.bearblog.dev)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I made a blog post on my biggest issue in Lemmy and the proposed solutions for it. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I think the multi-Reddit approach as the default would work best. Users subscribe to a “central” Group or Topic and immediately pull content from every federated community that self-designates as such.

One problem with this is if the community changes their mind and turns into something else. Either they check a box and designate under another Group or Topic, or get unsubscribed by users manually.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

A lot of communities fracture due to bad mods.

Grouping them all together kinda undoes that and become a clusterfuck.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Grouping them wouldn’t mean merging them. For a lack of better terms a Group (multi-Reddit) would allow each indexed community to retain its independence.

But I do see your point about bad mods. Leaving a rotten community in the index has the potential of making the group look bad. However, that’s where the beauty of federation comes into play where users can unsubscribe from those undesirable communities from the larger group.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

For a lack of better terms a Group [...] would allow each indexed community to retain its independence

Affiliations? We've had those since the 90s, every fandom forum had its dedicated section for affiliates.

The people thinking solutions for these fediverse problems really need to sit back and look at the internet of the 80s and 90s. Webrings, affiliations, gopher, fanlistings, FTP, much of the problems we "seem" to have were already solved long ago.