Is it worthwhile to try to get mods to combine them? It just seems like a bit of a waste when trying to grow a community and its split in two.
Or is this what the fediverse is supposed to look like?
I read before somebody said that we might be able to combine similar communities at some point but don’t know if that’s true.
I think that at the moment many communities are too fragmented. A lot of them seem to be a single person. There is a sweet spot regarding size, and that number is different from community to community. I wish people would avoid making duplicates if they didn’t have at least one other person ready to join them though.
I think so, I’ve found out quickly that the instance can add a lot of context as the instance tends to be the primary setter of the overall theme or topic, and the communities are just where they intersect. It will be interesting to see which ones get popular and which ones don’t.
That’s exactly what happened with reddit, I think it’s better to have more than one, worst case scenario you only sub to one and if it goes down there’s a quick alternative.
Personally I sub to both and if an article repeats no big deal I just move on
I think that at the moment many communities are too fragmented. A lot of them seem to be a single person. There is a sweet spot regarding size, and that number is different from community to community. I wish people would avoid making duplicates if they didn’t have at least one other person ready to join them though.
I’ve found that similar communities on different instances can have VERY different experiences in terms of the community and attitude. I know I’m generalizing, but I feel a lot of Lemmy.world instances are more negative and hostile than similar instances on beehaw.org. Personally, I’d rather they stay separate. That way I can be more precise on dialing in the experience I want.
We need a feature to combine several communities into a group that we can follow in our subscriptions.
Then it wouldn’t matter anyway.
My suggestion on GitHub was to let instance admin create a local /g/ grouping, with the freedom in how they utilise a /g/ group.
Some people argued that they should be able to make it per account, like a multireddit, but the point was for new and general users having easier access to broader fediverse content.
The instance admin would only need to do some legwork at first, then they could add to it as they go along. The barrier of entry for new users finding which communities outside of their instance is substantial.
As long as there is a way to spin up a new community if the mods go rogue, I’m okay with it.
I think that’ll always be the case with the Fediverse.
