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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by OptimusPrime@lemmynsfw.com to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

Over the past few days, I've witnessed a remarkable surge in the number of communities on browse.feddit.de. What started with 2k communities quickly grew to 4k, and now it has reached an astonishing 8k. While this exponential growth signifies a thriving platform, it also brings forth challenges such as increased fragmentation and the emergence of echo chambers. To tackle these issues, I propose the implementation of a Cross-Instance Automatic Multireddit feature within Lemmy. This feature aims to consolidate posts from communities with similar topics across all federated instances into a centralized location. By doing so, we can mitigate community fragmentation, counter the formation of echo chambers, and ultimately foster stronger community engagement. I welcome any insights or recommendations regarding the optimal implementation of this feature to ensure its effectiveness and success.

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[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

It could be done at the community or post level. I think because of the Mastodon backend Lemmy already supports hashtagging posts. But yeah my idea is that tagging communities would make it easy to merge communities with similar scopes

[-] OptimusPrime@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There could be conflicts between hashtags, as a hashtag for one community may not have the same meaning for another community. This would result in mixing topics and potential confusion.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

I suppose that's possible, but I don't really view it as a serious problem that sometimes words overlap.

[-] Anonymous0573@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

But one thing to consider is how divided it would be. Let's say I wanted to browse martial arts so I go to #martialarts. Now what about people adding stuff like #MMA or #karate. None of these would show up in #martialarts. Seems like hashtags would be even more divided than communities to me

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

The idea is that one community could apply many tags. So if you have karate communities from several Lemmy instances, browsing a multi-feed of #karate would show all of the communities you e subscribed to where the mods tagged their community with #karate. But the mods could also additionally tag their karate sub with #martialarts, and then it would show up in multi-feeds filtering on that hashtag as well

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