107

How are you managing your interaction with redundant communities? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by oxjox@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

61 comments fedilink hide all child comments

For example, I'm on Lemmy.ml and I've joined !photography@lemmy.ml, !photography@lemmy.world, and !photography@kbin.social. In this example, it's not very different from the number of similar groups on Flickr but, in comparison to Reddit, it seems like the decentralized platform can be a little unruly.

How are you going about joining different communities and managing your engagement? Are you only participating on the community on your instance? Are you joining and posting in as many instances that seem relevant?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] slowbyrne@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

I actually think Lemmy should take a page from Mastodon here. Instead of users creating groups (which sounds like a huge headache to implement smoothly), Lemmy should add hashtags or something similar. So I would sub to #photography and people posting would be restricted to a max number of hashtags (TBD). You can then choose to stay subbed to the hashtag and/or sub to the communities that crop up frequently on your feed and then unsub from the hashtag if you want.

[-] SilentStorms@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

That would require such a massive change in the way the platform works, and it would be way more difficult to moderate.

A multireddit equivilent would probably make more sense.

[-] oxjox@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I have loved the idea of subbing to hashtags since PhotoVine and wish desperately that this was a universally employed function of all social media platforms. I think Tumblr is the only other platform that has this as a built-in feature now. Ice Cubes just added a make-shift function to create a list of hashtags their Mastodon client (possibly by my request).

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.film 1 points 1 year ago

The instance I’m on you need to request the admins to create a community. I like the idea.

this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2023

107 points (97.3% liked)

Asklemmy

43865 readers

1860 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS