I think the hardest thing to overcome will be community duplication across instances. When searching for my old subreddit subscriptions’ parallels, I had to dive into the duplicated communities a few times to see which one had more posts/were more active.
Of course, the gentlemanly thing to do when creating a community would be to check first, but that’s obviously not happening all the time. Then there’s what to do if one gets created; should the instance admins get reports and yeet them if it’s determined to be a copy?
I think the fediverse is inherently different than the “normal” Internet. The way I’m thinking about it now is that each instance is a bit like it’s own town, and the activitypub protocol is the road infrastructure connecting each town. There may very well be a group of technologists in Town A, but that shouldn’t stop anyone from making their own group in Town B.
That being said, it’s very beneficial to be able to gather all of these disparate communities into one place, and going back to the analogy, this would be something like a city center, where many people from smaller communities come together.
Perhaps in the future, we’ll be able to create our own feeds (i.e not just subscribed, local, and all). I think that would be a solid way to handle things. Bonus points if those feeds can then be shared with others, so that they don’t also need to go through the work of finding and subscribing to the individual communities that make up the greater feed.
Yeah, this mirrors my thoughts. There should be a way to combine subreddits with the same name, from the users’ perspective. Kind of like making a multireddit for yourself.
I have no idea if the technology allows for an implementation of that multislice with multiple slices with the same name but different instance, but I hope it does because it sounds interesting. At least from a user perspective.
But for example, /c/chatgpt community on infosec.pub instance might have different conversations to other /c/chatgpt communities on other instances, as (I presume) there’s a lot of industry/tech/infosec heads on that instance. So someone looking for a community can see them all and decide if what instance’s community right for them.
Whereas on Reddit, there can be only one /r/chatgpt, so you have to find adjacent subreddits.
I’ve seen that as well, but that existed on reddit and even IRL - religions and clubs nearly overlapping due to either disagreements or lack of awareness of each other predates the internet by centuries.
I think the hardest thing to overcome will be community duplication across instances. When searching for my old subreddit subscriptions’ parallels, I had to dive into the duplicated communities a few times to see which one had more posts/were more active.
Of course, the gentlemanly thing to do when creating a community would be to check first, but that’s obviously not happening all the time. Then there’s what to do if one gets created; should the instance admins get reports and yeet them if it’s determined to be a copy?
I think the fediverse is inherently different than the “normal” Internet. The way I’m thinking about it now is that each instance is a bit like it’s own town, and the activitypub protocol is the road infrastructure connecting each town. There may very well be a group of technologists in Town A, but that shouldn’t stop anyone from making their own group in Town B.
That being said, it’s very beneficial to be able to gather all of these disparate communities into one place, and going back to the analogy, this would be something like a city center, where many people from smaller communities come together.
Perhaps in the future, we’ll be able to create our own feeds (i.e not just subscribed, local, and all). I think that would be a solid way to handle things. Bonus points if those feeds can then be shared with others, so that they don’t also need to go through the work of finding and subscribing to the individual communities that make up the greater feed.
Yeah, this mirrors my thoughts. There should be a way to combine subreddits with the same name, from the users’ perspective. Kind of like making a multireddit for yourself.
Oh I like that idea way better. Basically, having the option to combine posts in the duplicate communities across instances.
I have no idea if the technology allows for an implementation of that multislice with multiple slices with the same name but different instance, but I hope it does because it sounds interesting. At least from a user perspective.
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But for example, /c/chatgpt community on infosec.pub instance might have different conversations to other /c/chatgpt communities on other instances, as (I presume) there’s a lot of industry/tech/infosec heads on that instance. So someone looking for a community can see them all and decide if what instance’s community right for them.
Whereas on Reddit, there can be only one /r/chatgpt, so you have to find adjacent subreddits.
I’ve seen that as well, but that existed on reddit and even IRL - religions and clubs nearly overlapping due to either disagreements or lack of awareness of each other predates the internet by centuries.