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.
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 1 year ago
blue_berry@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
How are comments handled? Are they combined as well, or are they still fractured?