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?
I was also confused by this. Now I just join the one with the most members.
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
Speaking of which, what are all the rust communities in the fediverse?
Go to https://programming.dev/search and type “rust” into the communities dropdown
I think in general one community is supposed to win and become the big one, but it is one of the problems with mixing the fediverse and reddit. In some ways it needs to be like a topic so any server could create posts on that topic. But that makes it hard to introduce moderation.
