I’ve noticed in the explosion that we are getting duplicate communities in multiple instances. This is ultimately gonna hinder community growth as eventually communities like ‘cats’ will exist in hundreds of places all with their own micro groups, and some users will end up subscribing to duplicates in their list.

A: could we figure out a system to let our communities know about the duplicates as a sticky so that users can better find each other?

B: I think this is the best solution, could a ‘super community’ method be developed under which communities can join or be parented to under that umbrella and allow us to subscribe to the super community under which the smaller ones nest as subs? This would allow the communities to stay somewhat fractured across multiple instances which can in turn protect a community from going dark if a server dies, while still keeping the broader audience together withing a syndicated feed?

  • UngaBunga@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    True fragmentation seems like it would be a huge issue.

    Also allowing easy exporting/migrating between instances should be possible.

    From my understanding (having literally discovered lemmy and the fediverse like an hour ago) mastodon supports things like grouping and account migration, so I assume it should be possible with lemmy?

    Also I’ll be honest I have no idea what mastodon is.

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      1 year ago

      Also I’ll be honest I have no idea what mastodon is.

      Mastodon is to Twitter what Lemmy is to Reddit: a decentralized alternative built on the ActivityPub protocol for the fediverse.

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      Mastodon is “microblogging” (think Twitter) for the fediverse. There’s also pixelfed (Instagram), peertube (youtube) and more.