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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Hadn’t seen https://browse.feddit.de/ before. Thanks for that!
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Sub to all of them and wait for all but one to die out.
It would be nice if there were an app or plugin that would aggregate them into one heading or folder. So that on the user end all of the Gaming@ Lemmy.lm Gaming@ Beehaw, etc etc just show up under #Gaming on the users end. It would also improve the longevity of the smaller ones since we can already post across instances.
That said I’m an idiot and not even remotely sure how that would get set up :).
If there is not already a way to combine communities into a single feed, surely there will be soon.
I feel like the challenge with that is that is going to be moderation. (well, the challenge is always with moderation)
I mean every community moderates itself, if you don’t like what one of them does, you cut it out of your feed.
It sounds exciting, imagine if mods would have to compete for shares of a topic instead of a group gatekeeping a big community.
Yeah, this is pretty much what I expect to happen
This is the way
Subbing to all of them, contributing where I can, and seeing what happens :)
Because communities on Lemmy are still in their infancy I join all of them (at least the larger ones) and will wait to see which of them gather traction.
Same!
Start beef. Survival of the fittest.
Fuck beehaw. All my homies hate beehaw.
Is this just going along with the other comment, or did beehaw actually do something hate-worthy?
Beehaw is fine, he’s just “starting beef”
I join the biggest one
I choose the one with the most subs. Multiple ‘new’ posts of the same thing will irk me.
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.
I like the idea of different communities. A single giant “community” like reddit feels too big
This is a good point. Some users prefer being in a community with a lower number of subscribers. Not everyone wants to post in a community with a million users so having big and small communities for the same thing isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It gives people the choice to decide which one they want to participate in.
I just keep an eye on all of them.
Eventually this whole thing will sort itself out and the snowball effect will see some communities get bigger while others fall to the wayside. It’s a natural progression.Look at their activity, if cannot determin which is the most likely to survive, I sub them all and wait.
They should treat it like hashtags on mastodon.
Anyone can post to a #communityname. Local mods are responsible for content from their instance. If an instance doesn’t weed out shit posts, other instances can stop importing its content.
I think defederating is easier said than done, and besides, what if one community is very well behaved and helpful and another is toxic and awful? You throw out the good with the bad in that case.
I think instead the user should be able to choose to combine similar communities, similar to the ‘multireddit’ concept. Then they can get lemmy.ml gaming and beehaw gaming in the same feed.
To help with discovery, a curated list could be created, and perhaps communities from that list could be suggested as time goes on. This does require some kind of centralisation but it would be down to the instance owner to decide to subscribe to it.
To me the trick isn’t consuming similar communities, but cross pollinating to them. Like if you want to comment on a new game trailer do you copy and paste the same thing into ten threads?
I’m hoping this gets addressed with a super-community / “multi Reddit” type feature eventually. But that wouldn’t really address how posting works. You would still need to drop it into a single community. But maybe it could encourage spreading content around similar communities.
You can add your post to the tagged Lemmy communities by tagging them like so: @community@lemmyinstance.
Shout-out to @[email protected] for posting this tip.
I just subscribe to both of them, the more mindless scroll content, the better >:D
Eventually one will become the biggest/most successful. Give it a bit of time.
Same thing that made, for example, /r/technology bigger than /r/tech on reddit.
I sub to them all, and then order the communities to fight each other. The last community standing is the winner. Surprisingly, none of this has ever happened yet.
