How do I deal with "fractured" communities?
How do I deal with "fractured" communities?
One of the biggest issues I'm having trouble getting past with Lemmy is not knowing which communities to subscribe to.
An example, if there are like 10+ different communities for "technology", do I really have to subscribe to all of them just to get the same experience I would have gotten on /r/technology?
Is there a way to "clump" these communities together so I can just subscribe to one "multi-community" that houses the posts from all of them?
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Subscribing to 10 technology communities will likely get you a much, much more vibrant experience than just subbing to r/technology. People actually, you know, discuss things in smaller spaces, rather than just drop drive-by comments that no one will ever read.
Or it'll get you a dozen dupes of every submission.
Let's give Lemmy time to evolve a bit. Maybe they'll add a feature like "if you see a post from multiple communities all to the same URL and posted within 5 hours of each other, only show me the post with the most upvotes/comments. Hide the rest."
There might be issues with that idea, but it's AN idea, and who knows maybe they'll come up with an even better idea. 🤷♂️
As Lemmy grows, communities on certain servers will die out and some will accumulate all the users. I think the problem will die out eventually.
Though, I think there should be some way to migrate users of a community to a new server. Sounds hard to implement but maybe doable.