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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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[-] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I read on another post in a different community that some servers have neo-nazis running them? If that is the case, no thanks, I don’t want that.

[-] confusedbonobo 8 points 1 year ago

It's possible, it's one of the downsides of being federated. The instances are moderated independendently, there is no central authority that enforces law or morals. It's great to avoid things like what happened to Reddit, but stuff like that can and will show up. You can always block instances to avoid seeing them, if you want.

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

How does one block an instance as a user? I thought only instances can block other instances.

[-] confusedbonobo 2 points 1 year ago

My bad, I meant community. You can block communities individually. For blocking instances as a user there's an open issue on Lemmy's GitHub, but I believe it's not going to be implemented anytime soon.

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

Seconding this, I keep coming across Portuguese things and I don't speak Portuguese.

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

Maybe this is your sign to learn Portuguese...

[-] AlataOrange@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Mas não conheço ninguém que fale português para conversar. Se eu quisesse aprender um idioma, deveria escolher um local para realmente usá-lo.

[-] Pisck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Holy shit that was fast. I didn't know Lemmy had a language extension feature.

[-] ChaosAD@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

That's easy to block those individual instances if needed (assuming they exist).

[-] AlataOrange@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

How do you block an instance as a user? I know how to block a community from an instance, and i know an instance owner can defederate another instance, but how do I as a user block a whole instance?

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

So far as I'm aware you currently can't, you can only block users & communities. On Mastodon there's an option to block domains (so, instances), but neither Lemmy nor Kbin have that functionality yet (and I dunno if they intend to).