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

I have a question about communities. Are communities server-specific, for example, is the "Gaming" community on lemmy.ml different from the one on, say, beehaw.org and will I need to join both?

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[-] testman@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

wait, what about if you have two communities where mods and admins are fine. Are there any options to federate those communities?

all this time I was under impression that communities already federate

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

There is not a single, god community. Any instance can make /c/startrek, and people can subscribe to both.

[-] 7heo@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

The only "universal community search" tool that we know of so far, is https://browse.feddit.de/ .

But I'd be very open to adding this type of functionality into lemmy's apps, and this UI too.

[-] 7heo@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] testman@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

yep, that does make sense from security / moderation standpoint, as one "god community" would probably get Bad Apple'd ™ .
but I would argue that "lol just manually opt-in to other communities" could be improved.
I will go search through issues on GitHub to see which of my ideas were already proposed and which still need to be opened 👍

[-] sexy_peach@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

You can follow both, that's the federation.

[-] testman@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Is it?
On Mastodon I can take a look at "Federated timeline" and see the posts from the people that I have not followed. Because instances already federate by themselves (due to some other user on my instance following the user on other instance) but yes, I see your point

[-] iod@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

Yep. Would be cool if we could subscribe to tags or topics so to speak. The 2 related gaming communities could then be grouped together in a federated view for the topic "Gaming". At least for reading comments, not sure how posting would work.

[-] sexy_peach@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago
[-] spinoza_the_jedi@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

You know, I actually really like the idea of tags. I don’t currently have an issue with manually subscribing to similar communities on different servers (I’m often just browsing “all” to see all communities and all servers). But being able to subscribe to a tag would be cool. Then I could more easily identify and opt out of the communities I don’t like that match those tags.

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