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?
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.
There is a multi-reddit issue open on github. As soon as someone actually codes it, it’ll be there.
I’m trying to learn Rust atm to contribute, but very likely someone will code that up before I’m ready to actually submit pull requests and not be laughed out of the room.
I just sub to the most popular one assuming it’ll be the one to win out.
Yep. It was the same issue as multiple similar subreddits on reddit.
Yeah, this is pretty much what I expect to happen
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”
Removed by mod
Buzz buzz, bee nice
And we can be as mean to you as we like can you can’t even downvote us.
I join the biggest one
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!
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’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.
Subbing to all of them, contributing where I can, and seeing what happens :)
I tend to take a look at each one and see if they have slightly different vibes despite similar names. If they’re different enough I’ll subscribe to multiple. E.g !anime@lemmy.ml and !animepics@reddthat.com
Also shout out to https://browse.feddit.de/ for letting you see communities that your instance hasn’t indexed yet. If you look there before creating a new community we should have fewer unintentional duplicates.
Next update should make the community browser a part of lemmy
Hadn’t seen https://browse.feddit.de/ before. Thanks for that!
As a new mod of c/Alberta, the community for the province is much larger on Lemmy.ca.
However, that’s also simply because people are more likely to subscribe with how much more focused the instance is on Canada, so it’s a given more people will join it.
Honestly, so far, while I’ve been trying to get the Alberta community here up and running, I have no issue with the one on Lemmy.ca existing. If anything, I hope that the communities can co-exist because perhaps it’ll become the case where certain instances will develop their own cultures in the same way some Peertube instances do. We even have the Lemmy.ca communities relating to the province in the community sidebar to encourage people to take advantage of the federated nature of Lemmy.
I’ve been joining all of them. I might pare down if I need to at some point, but I want to try to catch all the discussion on a topic.
Join them all, for now. I think Lemmy desperately needs a mechanism for “meta communities” or something so you can view a merged feed of say “gaming@everywhere” instead of separately seeing “gaming@beehaw” versus “gaming@lemmyworld” …
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. Ideally we’ll continue to see at least a few popular instances and not just conglomerate back to one giant instance. 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. Or a way to merge multiple community posts together.
That’s actually a great point. Haven’t really done much posting on reddit for the past couple of years but really enjoy the more intimate feel of lemmy atm. We’ll see how it all pans out but I yearn for the old phpbb days of the internet :D
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 think it depends on the community. For entertainment stuff like videos, anime, memes, etc. I’d prefer a bunch of smaller ones. But hobby type communities, where you aren’t only looking at newest posts, I’d rather one big organized community.
For instance, if I want to buy some new headphones then is would be a pain to have to look through 6 different instances for a stickied reccomendation thread.