For the unaware, is a alternative to platforms such as Reddit and Tildes.
I've been using Lemmy as one of my main social platforms for the past 6 months...
That was addressed in the article under Proposal 2:
it’s a feature not many people made use of, and it sounds like a pain to have to constantly create and manage new multi-communities to group together duplicate communities. This shouldn’t be a task that users have to manually do.
Personally I think proposal 2 and 3 should happen concurrently. Using the example in the post I would setup a custom feed (that can hopefully consolidate cross posts) for breakfast. I would put pancakes@a.com which subscribes to pancakemasters@b.com I can also add pancakeart@a.com and waffles@a.com. so when someone posts about the best homemade peanut butter syrup recipe that is cross posted to my pancake and waffle communities, I don’t get 4 posts about it, I can see it once and choose where to reply (pancakes obviously, I’m a waffle purist).
Community interlinking/subscription fixes a slightly different problem than custom feeds IMO. It’s a really good idea, but I would personally still want custom feeds (with the ability to handle crossposts in a customizable way).
Because each instance and community had it’s own rules. With custom feeds user can choose with communities he want to consolidate and separate them again if he want
Ok my mistake but that is just one example. They may exists some two similar community with different rules. I constantly read people opinions on the fediverse selling point was about it being censorship resistant because you can switch to another instance
Custom feeds grouping similar communities
That was addressed in the article under Proposal 2:
Personally I think proposal 2 and 3 should happen concurrently. Using the example in the post I would setup a custom feed (that can hopefully consolidate cross posts) for breakfast. I would put pancakes@a.com which subscribes to pancakemasters@b.com I can also add pancakeart@a.com and waffles@a.com. so when someone posts about the best homemade peanut butter syrup recipe that is cross posted to my pancake and waffle communities, I don’t get 4 posts about it, I can see it once and choose where to reply (pancakes obviously, I’m a waffle purist).
Community interlinking/subscription fixes a slightly different problem than custom feeds IMO. It’s a really good idea, but I would personally still want custom feeds (with the ability to handle crossposts in a customizable way).
It shouldn’t be difficult to group some community automatically then users can edit it if they want
If they are similar, why not consolidate?
Better to not have to start over 100% if the main community is on a server that randomly disappears forever or turns sour and gets defederated.
Because each instance and community had it’s own rules. With custom feeds user can choose with communities he want to consolidate and separate them again if he want
What are the rules differences between !movies@lemmy.world and !movies@lemm.ee ?
!movies@lemmy.world allows shitposts/memes. It’s a big deal to some people like me
!movies@lemm.ee does too: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/19486392
Ok my mistake but that is just one example. They may exists some two similar community with different rules. I constantly read people opinions on the fediverse selling point was about it being censorship resistant because you can switch to another instance
In those cases, the communities should not consolidate, and would not “follow each other” under Proposal 3.
So the solution may only reduce the duplications but not fix it completely. A lot of communities are already dead with no active admins
Wouldn’t that go against decentralization?
Decentralization is being able to access the same content from different instances.
Duplicating communities is the opposite: now people can’t see the same content, they have to follow all the similar communities
See, this compulsion needs to be killed off. Because no, they absolutely do not have to.
If a user wants to see all the activity on a given topic, they very much do have to.