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Isn’t it a bit of an annoying having repeat communities across various Lemmy instances? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by justsayit@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Seeing a big “politics” community in both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world just confuses me as to which I should be subscribing to and I don’t really want to subscribe to both.

Guess this is just a downside of federated instances? There’ll never just be one “/r/politics” on Lemmy?

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[-] Bldck@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I would rather see instances focused on topics with niche communities within them.

For example, a lemmy.POLITICS instance with communities for WORLD, US, EU, LATAM, etc

[-] jecxjo@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

I second this idea. But everyone wants to be king of their own castle so either mods need to share responsibility on a single community. Lemmy supports cross instance mods so no need to have multiple accounts.

[-] Bldck@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

We are still in the early days of the fediverse. Once this thing gets figured out and stabilized, I think we could see some progress in consolidating duplicate communities…

But does the broader group of users want this model?

[-] jecxjo@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

I think the majority of people want this. Posters and lurkers who want specific content. Especially for topics that don't have a constant flood of posts. Thinking the communities where you go to actively scroll instead of reading all/new.

Maybe a solution is coming up with personal lists. Add all communities for a topic and then scroll them all together.

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