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Addressing the Exponential Growth of Communities (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by OptimusPrime@lemmynsfw.com to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Over the past few days, I've witnessed a remarkable surge in the number of communities on browse.feddit.de. What started with 2k communities quickly grew to 4k, and now it has reached an astonishing 8k. While this exponential growth signifies a thriving platform, it also brings forth challenges such as increased fragmentation and the emergence of echo chambers. To tackle these issues, I propose the implementation of a Cross-Instance Automatic Multireddit feature within Lemmy. This feature aims to consolidate posts from communities with similar topics across all federated instances into a centralized location. By doing so, we can mitigate community fragmentation, counter the formation of echo chambers, and ultimately foster stronger community engagement. I welcome any insights or recommendations regarding the optimal implementation of this feature to ensure its effectiveness and success.

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[-] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I honestly wouldn't want that, a feature like multi-reddit would be much better IMO.

I personally don't want to be "automatically" subscribed to all tech communities for example just because I joined one, nor I want to be flood by an immense feed because all communities of the same type are put all together, that takes away individual choices IMO.

We had exactly the same problem on reddit, but multi-reddit solved that very well by leaving the choice to individuals instead of being forced by admins.

EDIT: for those who don't know, multi-reddit is a reddit feature that allows you to create different "labels" into which you can combine different subreddits, which label to create and which subs to combine is totally a user choice, those labels become "tabs" into your UI that you can use as they were individual subs.

So for example, I can create a label/tab called "linux" and use it to combine r/linux + r/linuxmx + r/xfce, etc., than I can create another label called "games" and combine r/MMORPG + r/wow + r/guildwars2, etc., and so on.

multi-reddits can be private, that is only the user who created them can see them, or they can be made public, so if some user doesn't want to create their own, they can use multis created by other people.

[-] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.fmhy.ml 61 points 1 year ago

join a meme sub

get joined to 15 meme subs

every meme is posted 15 times

surprised pikachu face

[-] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

15 surprised pikachu faces

ftfy

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I like this idea, however it would need to be intuitive to use and clearly advertised as a feature with a plain explanation up front. I say this because I'd never heard of this feature before and I used reddit for over 15 years (had to Google how it worked after seeing your comment).

[-] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, users need ofc explanations, but that can be easily done, as much as people here are trying their best now to explain people the fediverse, that is quite more difficult to grasp IMO than a multi-reddit feature.

[-] OrangeCorvus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Initially, I thought I wanted what op said but after reading your post, yes, this is what I want! To make my own multi-~~reddits~~communities with blackjack and hookers.