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r/Android is now on the Fediverse!
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So we have separate Android communities running on separate instances. I can't see how this community splintering can be a good thing.
As time goes one community will emerge as the main one while other would dry up and naturally become obsolete (until people get angry with the mods of main one and start looking for alternative community, similar to how there are r/truegaming, r/true(x) etc for popular subreddits.)
There are many open PRs on lemmy github on how to aggregate similar communities. For example there is a suggestion of making an auto multireddit like thing, m/gaming for example, that would merge posts from every c/gaming community (not sure how this would work with defederation and stuff). With enough demand, something like that can be added to lemmy by an experienced dev.
People have been saying the same thing about 1. for years and now things are worse than ever.
How can there be one main community when instances keep defederating?
Things like defederation and having communities with the same topic on different instances are actually good things, they're features of the Fediverse not problems.
It takes a bit of adapting to the Fediverse mindset as opposed to the centralized platform mindset but there are solutions:
The beehaw and world defederation (which I assume you are referencing) is temporary because beehaw believes the increased traffic cannot be moderated without proper mod tools.
And while you're right about mainstream things like gaming or technology won't have a single main community, I feel more niche communities will be able to setup their main communities. Obviouly that's just my opinion, but there are some signs of that happening already. (c/piracy for example)
Given instances can get defederated because of one sublemmy... pressing big X to doubt on that
Man, I hope that doesn't catch on.
Okay, it is a stupid name, I admit. Better alternative?
Lemmy already calls it a community. It's all over the UI, code, everything. Why call it something else?
It's just like having different subreddits about the same topic. Just subscribe to both.
I think what he meant is why launch a second exact same community, with merely 300 subscribers, when there's already an established one like !android@lemmy.world which has now more than 15k subscribers? I noticed that behavior with the r/neovim mods too, they refused to join an existing community. My guess is simply that they want to be in a community where they are still in charge of everything, they're too addicted to their mod "powers" to let go of them.
Back to OP, I think the whole thread and the way r/Android mods just hoped to absorb users of this community is completely inappropriate and simply disrespectful.
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But they're the same topic, so there's a good chance there's gonna be repeated content across both. Particularly if not everyone is subscribed to all instances.
I'm subscribing to both, but will be interesting to see how duplicate content across instances are federated in the future.
If two of the same topic is posted, the one in the instance with more people will be higher on the active list than the other, so if you're subbed to both, you'll see that one first and interact with it. I've seen duplicate topics across several of my subs on Reddit regularly.
Are there any Lemmy clients that support viewing multi-communities? For example, I'd prefer viewing all posts for all instances of Android over the combined subscribed list.
I thought that was built in to all Lemmy clients. All non-home instances I'm subscribed to are presented as @instance because the instance location is just as important as the sub's name.
Just to clarify, I don't want to view all of the content from my subscribed communities in a single view. I want to be able to tap on something like Android and then only view the content from all instances with the same community name that I'm subscribed to.
I wouldn't even want it restricted to the same community name, make it customizable. I'd love to be able to set up Android and FossDroid on the same feed for example. Or all the different selfhosted/homelab/datahoarders/etc. communities.
I get your point but there is a good solution for this.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1113
Basically a feature request to have the option for multi subreddits or communities. This way we get centralized content without the disadvantages of decentralization.
Don't like the direction of one? You get options. Like them both? Subscribe to both. It's like getting Gamers Nexus and LTT, different perspective but overlapping community.