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Redundant communities across instances (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by bfr0@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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As a new reddit exile, I may be misunderstanding this.

In theory something like a !gaming community could crop up on multiple large instances, especially during the mass exodus while instances are getting hammered with spikes in volume.

If that's the case, we'll have fragmented communities across instances. Is there any way besides subscribing to each of them to combine them into a sort of multi-reddit type aggregation? Or is this considered a temporary (albeit important to adoption) problem during the crazy stages?

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[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think a good solution would be to split popular communities across instances to balance the load on the servers. Also you could have stubs that say the community is actually located at xyz etc.

[–] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Also in the description of each community they could update it to add links to the other communities on other instances so that people can subscribe to them as well. Though that'll make more work for mods to update it, and for users to actually connect to new ones as they pop up.

[–] Sirquacksalot@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Having just come from Reddit myself, I'm finding this really hard to wrap my head around. I initially jumped over and made a Kbin account and started looking around for ~~subreddits~~ "Magazines" to subscribe to. I found a few, then was surprised that I didn't see "Movie Suggestions", so I went ahead and created one thinking 'Okay, now it's around, I'll hold onto it for awhile and surely someone who used to moderate the old /r/moviesuggestions subreddit shows up, I can hand it off to someone as I have 0 knowledge or interest in doing any of that BS.

Eventually, I made a Lemmy account (here, I guess? I still have no idea what the fuck an "instance" is, or whatver this is...), and found that there already exists a Movie Suggestions ~~subreddit~~ "Community". So... are there like, 9000 Movie Suggestions ~~subreddits~~ whatevers for every instance/server of Lemmy and/or Kbin?

How in the fuck is that supposed to work, if everyone just creates their own thing?

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[–] triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago

in b4 the meta "redundant posts about redundant communities across the fediverse" 🙃

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