I kinda wish related communities shared a common instance (aussie.zone)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Zozano@aussie.zone to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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One of the most annoying parts about That Place, and also Lemmy, is curating your feed by blocking communities you have no interest in seeing.

I am not a sports person, so I need to block each sports team manually when I see it, and also each individual sport. It would be so much better if I could just block an instance called "Lemmy.sports".

I'm glad Lemmy.nsfw is the default porn instance, I think we need to see more of this.

I know it's too late to change at this point, but I think a feature to catagorise different communities would be nice, so I could block "sports" if I wanted to.

Alternatively, maybe down the line see a feature to import a community to a new instance without users having to migrate manually.

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[-] baronvonj@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The problem with this is where do you draw the lines and how do you enforce it? For example I mod a community for a specific sports league. Should there be an instance for the one league with communities for each of the teams? Maybe an instance for the sport in general but then what if you have the same team names in different leagues. Or the same league name in different countries? What about if we wanted to group team communities under a geographic instances instead of by league or by sport?

[-] WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Could just be a best practice type thing. If even like 20% of people strongly believed in such, that would probably be enough to make the communities formed on a relevant instance become the dominant/main community. Would be up to communities to decide how the want to divide things via organic processes.