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Redundant communities across instances (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year 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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[-] Sirquacksalot@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] parlaptie@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I guess rather than just silently creating a community and waiting for anyone to come, you'd have to make a post putting a light on your community. Although if you don't have the moderators to run a community, that might be jumping the gun to early.

There's at least a community for highlighting/requesting new communities here on /c/newcommunities@lemmy.world

(Okay I'm having some trouble figuring out how to link a community on jerboa)

[-] Sirquacksalot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I looked for a way to delete the "magazines" I'd created, but couldn't find one so I just deleted my whole Kbin account. I don't want that level of responsibility, being the owner of those and having to be responsible in any way for what people post. I'll just have to wait until someone else creates one and it climbs to the top of the heap and then join it I guess.