The only way it happens less is if lemmy actually does something to merge communities or treat cross posts as a single post.
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chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 2 years agoIt did, but it wasn’t as bad as this. My hope is that as Lemmy matures, this will happen less.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world 2 years ago
unless communitie and users become agnostic to instances
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
It shouldn’t be that difficult to give mods or administration the ability to name communities that “super federate” and appear as local to all instances. That or make Instances more agnostic.
dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world 2 years ago
a simple flaw in this design is that users on lemmy.world and users on beehaw.org are not federated, so how do we resolve that issue for a community that is on .ml, .world, beehaw, and nsfw, beehaw would have to support content from world, who they are currently defederated with, or their users would just not see content from world users. the whole premise of defederation is ironically antithetical to the premise of federation. by making a larger group of distributed users, the system could work great. but the admins are taking their personal issues to each other cause fractures that make adoption for newer users and more laymen basically impossible. that whole “it doesn’t matter what instance you use” is complete BS at this point since half of the top 5 instances are defederated frome at least 1 other.
DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It won’t.
schmidtster@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It got lost on the noise of reddit.
And it’s entirely up to your instance, the instance I am in has strict bot rules that other instances bots must follow.
dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world 2 years ago
wtf do the bots have to do with this? the issue is that multiple communities are all talking about the same article in many different places when they should be all talking about it in 1.
schmidtster@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Absolutely not, the benefit of each community having its own vibe is exactly that.
Think of it it like this, one community is for Germans and one is for the French. They can talk about the same thing, but they will Absolutely go about it differently, and that’s fine. Pick which one you want to help/join, or hit up both.
dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Were not talking about language barriers, were talking about people building arbitrary walls where none are needed. There is 0 reson that there are over a dozen “technology” communities. If there was simply 1 community to focus on these topics the whole place would function much more smoothly. The core problems with Lemmy is that all of the communities are fragmented and spread out, by force of the admins too. This means small communities will never get populated unless a massive monolithic instance comes about to dwarf the rest. Right now, the largest video game communities on the internet don’t get even a post a day. The only things that get traction here are politics, tech, and memes, because they are the most universal topics that can be minimally sustained on any online platform. Until the users and admins of Lemmy realize they need to agnosticize content, communities, and users from instances, this place will crumble under its fundamental framework. We need to be like email, and let the users build their spaces, not the few who decide to host the servers.