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Redundant communities across instances (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by bfr0@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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As a new reddit exile, I may be misunderstanding this.

In theory something like a !gaming community could crop up on multiple large instances, especially during the mass exodus while instances are getting hammered with spikes in volume.

If that's the case, we'll have fragmented communities across instances. Is there any way besides subscribing to each of them to combine them into a sort of multi-reddit type aggregation? Or is this considered a temporary (albeit important to adoption) problem during the crazy stages?

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[-] mikehunt@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

This will probably take care of itself with time. Not having any "official" ones dictated by some central authority is kind of the whole idea of the fediverse.

[-] sax@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Agreed - this was my initial concern as well but now that I've gotten used to the structure here it doesn't seem like an issue. The whole Digg > Reddit > "New Monolith" wasn't ever going to solve the problem of enshittification, it would just buy us some time, and probably not much at that. This feels a necessary paradigm shift, and the multiple overlapping communities really turns into a failsafe more than an inconvenience.

They all still populate the same on a feed if you're subbed anyway.

[-] ry_@fedia.io 6 points 1 year ago

They don’t though, my feed of the same community looks different on each instance due to the vote counts being different

[-] sax@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That's a fair point - I guess all I'm saying is that they all can show up within your feed if subbed to the same communities.

Admittedly, I didn't know there was a difference in vote counts when viewing across instances. I had assumed the votes would be synced to those accrued on the specific post's instance but it sounds like that may not be how it is done.