what’s stopping 8 different instances from hosting a ‘politics’, ‘funny’, ‘fediverse’, community?
these duplicate communities defeat the goal to replace reddit.
It’s annoying that you have to subscribe to all of them.
I’d welcome a feature to subscribe to a community and all known (to my instance) communities with the same name.
It you have two friends called “Tom” do you also save both their phone numbers under the same entry in your contact list?
Nope, but I do use tags to group people. “Family”, “Close Friends”, “Coworkers”, etc. Does Lemmy have something like this? Like the OP, I don’t want to dig through 20 instances to find the “best”. Just show them all in one dump. The “winner take all” style won’t appeal to the masses at all.
We are early days. Competition breeds innovation. The best communities will filter to the top
Nothing, and that prevents one instance to claim a specific community. Time will filter out the best of those similar communities.
I’d like to see a live replication kind of thing. So if you’re on !games@lemmy.ml it can merge with !games@behaw.meh and they super federate and advertise that this group exists, replicated, on four or five lemmy servers and the client tracks that every X hours and knows what the failovers are.
Solves some of the fragmentation issues and the backup/archive issues at the same time. Might even help with load balancing a bit if we have some kind of routing algo on the endpoints.
well, it’s confusing for new user like me : you have the feeling that as soon as you subscribe to a community, you interact with the same community on all instances. Forbid duplicate names could be a solution
Won’t happen, one of the pros of how it works comes from the Devs themselves:
You could have two news communities but you’ll know you have news@lemmy.ca and news@lemmy.uk or something similar.
For general communities might be confusing, but you still have this in reddit and other similar platforms, you have r/memes, r/dankmemes, r/dank_meme, and many others.
But then a single instance could lock out all other instances from having that community name. Even if that instance didn’t actually have a good community.
you’re right. it’s not really a big deal if you know how lemmy works and understand you subscribe to a ‘local’ community.
What was stopping people on reddit? You could make /r/Tech, /r/Technology, /r/TechNews, etc
It’s a bit muddy right now but a clear winner for each topic will win out and become “the” place for that topic. Give it time, let people figure things out.
