What are you guys doing when there's multiple communities for the same thing across instances? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by GingeyBook@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example, I want to join a Today I learned community but when I search for it, I come across 4 of them on different instances.

What do you guys do when you see this? Join the one with the most users, join all of them?

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[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

Sub to all of them and wait for all but one to die out.

[-] Grenfur@lemmy.one 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It would be nice if there were an app or plugin that would aggregate them into one heading or folder. So that on the user end all of the Gaming@ Lemmy.lm Gaming@ Beehaw, etc etc just show up under #Gaming on the users end. It would also improve the longevity of the smaller ones since we can already post across instances.

That said I'm an idiot and not even remotely sure how that would get set up :).

[-] pieceofcrazy@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

I am going to say something that is highly uninformed and based on a comment I think I read but, isn’t that what kbin does?

[-] socsa@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

If there is not already a way to combine communities into a single feed, surely there will be soon.

[-] upperleft@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I feel like the challenge with that is that is going to be moderation. (well, the challenge is always with moderation)

[-] maynarkh@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I mean every community moderates itself, if you don't like what one of them does, you cut it out of your feed.

It sounds exciting, imagine if mods would have to compete for shares of a topic instead of a group gatekeeping a big community.

[-] CaptManiac@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

I just sub to the most popular one assuming it'll be the one to win out.

[-] mike@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this is pretty much what I expect to happen

[-] ug01x@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is the way

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