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we have "sub-lemmys" but what we are missing for lack of a better term is "dom-lemmys", hear me out (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by KittyCat@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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What we're really lacking on the ui end is a way to see groups of identical communities that are on different federated platforms. Hence the idea of a dom-lemmy. The way it would work is lets say you search for a cat community called "cats", there's at least dozens of them out there already. Instead it would return the cats dom-lemmy, with the option to either drill down to a specific instance, or to merge all sub-lemmys called cats into a single view

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[-] Kichae@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Why does there need to be one community to rule them all? A thousand communities on a topic with a thousand users each is much better for usability than 1 community with 1 million users. More people get to actually engage with others, be seen, and be heard in smaller communities.

Mega-communities are just white noise machines.

[-] crwcomposer@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Because if I subscribe to all of them, sometimes I will see 100 identical posts of the relevant news. And if I subscribe to just one, then I'm missing out on a lot of content.

[-] Kichae@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

You're also missing out on a lot of content by not seeing the vast, vast majority of posts that never get noticed.

And you're missing all of the posts posted on Facebook groups!

And all of the posts posted to Hacker News!

And all of the posts on...

[-] crwcomposer@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Okay, but I see no reason to intentionally make that issue worse.

[-] Kichae@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

And I see no reason to turn spaces that can be used for meaningful activity into ones that can't be.

[-] crwcomposer@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not saying those spaces can't be used. Ideally each instance would end up with its own set of popular communities that have become the one true community. But it's a much better user experience if every instance doesn't have all of the communities from every other instance duplicated.

[-] Teppic@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It would be more resilient if it is distributed too, if 1 of 100 instances was temporarily offline the Mega-Magazine (or whatever you want to call it) would still function with 99% of the content.