There are tons of Rust communities spread on multiple instances. Is the expectation that users interested in rust should just subscribe to all of these? Is there a community which aggregates posts from all rust communities together into one?
It could be cool to have a feature of “allied communities” (or: a community family), where popular posts in each would be seen in the others.
This could maybe be achieved with bots crossposting from one community to another?
It would be great to have a way for communities to voluntarily marge and consolidate once things settle down. I can already see a lot of fragmentation of topics that honestly are never going to be big enough to sustain multiple communities. The flip side of that is that rogue mods could abuse that to merge unrelated subreddits, I guess.
Otherwise, “multireddits” would be great, it was the main way I accessed the other site.
the Android communities seemed to have no problem merging, the content doesn’t move with them but keeping the old community locked seems good enough
There is a opened feature wish for this https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3071
However I think with all the other (maybe more important) stuff on the line I think it will take a while.
Unfortunately, that’s the expectation, yes. I think, someone is working on a “multireddit” kind of feature, though. Also, Lemmy is written in Rust, so you could totally contribute! 😜
some sort of “multireddit” is imo the best solution, one of the things I saw as a pro before joining the fediverse but it somehow seems to be dismissed inside is the fact that we should have options to join communities run by different people, if we don’t like how things are run we can just “go somewhere else”.
We should have a way to index and group similar communities to view and interact while they still remain individual. Otherwise we are just going to be reddit 2.0, unfortunately I already saw a “powermod” starting to hoard communities on lemmy.world, that’s the thing we should have left behind.
sigh That was bound to happen, right? Those powermods (especially people like awkwardtheturtle) are incredibly annoying. It’s not possible to mod so many communities at once. There aren’t many communities on my own instance that I host, but thinking about it, I might impose a hard limit of how many communities one person can create / moderate at one time. Maybe 5 or so.
I was also confused by this. Now I just join the one with the most members.
