A few apps have multi-community support where you can group whatever you want, how you want, in one stream. I’m using Summit, but I feel a few other of the bigger apps support it now. I group the AskLemmys, tv/movie communities and different art communities into groups so I can view by category.
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The biggest problem with lemmy for me is the multiple “duplicate” communities.
There should be a feature to combine them at the client level. So the 3 different “privacy” communities could just be viewed as one on my lemmy client
anon6789@lemmy.world 2 months ago
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Nah. The different character of the communities and their history makes them unique and special, hiding that for broad appeal is unnecessary.
No need to muddy the waters with weird client-side obfuscations, one big one almost always wins and the other gets reposts, while subscribing to both is trivial if one wishes
BakerBagel@midwest.social 2 months ago
The balkanization is a massive problem though because instead of one, active, community we have 3 or 4 dead ones. There needs to be a critical mass of users before communities can afford to start splintering, and that just isn’t here.
blue_berry@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Piefed solves this with topics kind of neatly. You keep the ubique communities but they are all in one place
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
How are comments handled? Are they combined as well, or are they still fractured?
Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
[deleted]threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You rang?
Kichae@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
The “duplicate” communities are housed on different websites. Websites that could very well have their own norms, rules, and culture. Lumping them together and treating them as the same thing is just kind of invasive to them, and promotes bad netiquette.
Just pick one that you like best.
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Thats why i said client side view. Each servers community doesnt know i’m viewing 3 communities together on my phone and it doesnt affect them
Kichae@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Yeah, but you are still treating them as subsets of a singular whole.
Don’t do that.