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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] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I personally don't think this is a huge issue, but it is an issue. I usually pick the biggest community on a topic, or if there are multiple that are fairly active, subscribe to both/all. The only real complaint I have about it is that users will often make the same post to both communities, so I see duplicate posts on my timeline and the discussion is split in half.

I do think it would be nice if there was a way for community mods to choose to combine two communities across instances, in a way that they would appear as a single community to users. I don't know how that would be implemented though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I do think it would be nice if there was a way for community mods to choose to combine two communities across instances,

If they are willing to cooperate that far, they could as well merge the communities

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

That's true. I guess I like the idea of being able to distribute a community across servers, but it may be more trouble than it's worth to implement.

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

And then the users who were in the moved-from server but are defederated from the moved-to server get automatically banne d/ blocked from it.

Thanks but no thanks. Sharing is the solution, not merging. Merging is the solution that corporate sells for every problem.