• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    it’s counterintuitive to the whole point of Lemmy lol

    Actually no, it is not. Having multiple smaller communities works to the benefit of users in the Fediverse. One server might be down, and people in those communities can find another community on a different instance to continue discussion until the community of their instance choice comes back up.

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      By that logic it makes more sense to have one community mirrored over multiple instances. If one instance goes down the others just take over. No hassle for the users.

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        I do think it would be beneficial if there was a way to have “super communities” or “sub-federation,” where communities with similar topics can opt in to the feature. Thus if a person subscribes to one of the communities with that feature, other communities with similar topics will appear in that thread.

        Ultimately, this would retain decentralization while increasing community discovery, which is a benefit to end-users.

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          Yeah people have thrown around the idea of eventually doing something like that. So like you’d subscribe to “AccidentalRenaissance” and get all communities with that name as one feed or whatever.

          Hope that happens.

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        But the point is to have different people in charge in case anyone gets full of themselves. See: reddit

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      Yeah I think people are trying to force/recreate Reddit in its entirety on a single platform, and that’s not going to happen.

      And I didn’t think of it, but yeah having one to check out when the other one’s down is good.