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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com to Fedigrow@lemm.eeEnglish · 2 months ago

Lemmy Needs to Fix Its Community Separation Problem

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Lemmy Needs to Fix Its Community Separation Problem

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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com to Fedigrow@lemm.eeEnglish · 2 months ago
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For the unaware, is a alternative to platforms such as Reddit and Tildes. I've been using Lemmy as one of my main social platforms for the past 6 months...
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    Then why not consolidate?

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      Many reasons. A lot of them are the same reasons to have independent instances.

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        At some point we need to acknowledge that there are only so many active communities we can sustain, and that usually the most active becomes the default one.

        [email protected] is definitely the most active community compared to [email protected]

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          Do we? I don’t think we need to. People are free subscribe to either, both, or none. And adding a feature where a community can follow another solves pretty much all issues one could have with fracturing.

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            Evidence shows that all over the platform there’s one community which becomes the main one for a given topic

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            People are free subscribe to either, both, or none.

            Subscribers can, but posters are not going to crosspost their content to all the communities available on a topic

            And adding a feature where a community can follow another solves pretty much all issues one could have with fracturing.

            That’s not even on the roadmap of Lemmy, Piefed or Mbin, is it?

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              Proposal 3 according to another comment on this thread.

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