Seeing stuff about reddit being posted to 10 different technology boards, plus reddit-themed ones, then reposted further just makes this whole idea a mess. Reposts have to be consolidated into a single comment thread.
Agreed the cross posting is much more visible and irritating. Not sure it will ever be resolved as it is a fundamental architecture design of the Fediverse. I would hate to see another closed source site be the main alternative but Squabbles is growing fast and with the new app looking so good it may accelerate its growth. Time will tell.
I completely understand the sentiment while simultaneously completely disagreeing. The idea of the fediverse, and seeing it play out explicitly with the various multiple posts and other things is kind of sexy to me in a technological and aspirational sense. I dig how janky this whole thing can sometimes be. It’s part of the appeal for me. As it matures and becomes more streamlined over time all of that will surely change and get cleaner and easier to use. Which will be awesome to see. But I greatly appreciate what it is now for the time that it will be. Being in close to the ground floor of this is really fun. I loved Usenet back in the day. I remember and loved reddit at the very very beginning. I love and appreciate this shit for what it is while it still is this. This has legs. And people will be nostalgic for this time later on. Love it now too while enjoying watching it grow.
I think it will be like this until the Reddit drama calms down and people either move off Reddit or stay there.
I do worry about the amount of content here that is Reddit related
Give it couple of months. It was the same last year with the “Twitter migration”. A whole lot of people joined Mastodon and there was about a month of discussions around two topics - 1) just how much Twitter sucked and 2) just how confusing fediverse was.
Then most people went back to Twitter and things calmed down.
Haha I love seeing federation explained in every single post /s
There was just an update posted regarding lemmy that would allow for community merging. This is really going to be a game changer if they can figure out how to work that properly.
This sounds like a feature that couldn’t be implemented properly without users being confused. There are different posting rules for each community. It would be too much to keep up with.
Consolidating communities could be done sort of like multireddits, basically just an organizational tool, which didn’t confuse people about the different rules, because it was clear which subreddit individual posts were on, and rules were clearly displayed in sidebars.
It could work in a different way, where the communities are more thoroughly merged, but there would be no reason for it to be anything but voluntary for the moderators of the individual communities. Presumably, the rules of the combined community would be something that would be discussed and decided on between the moderators of the individual communities that would enforce the rules.
