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I think Lemmy needs a better way to federate communities, so if you sub to say a “Star Trek” community on 3 instances, you don’t get the same post 3 times, but instead it’s somehow linked and content federates; this would be at the community and not instance level, so there’s more community self-governance, and communities can migrate instances without so much intervention from instance admins. I think that will really help growth and decentralization.

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artiman@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Piefed has this with reposts

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- mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Its so nice.
  
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- Blaze@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It does
  
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Kirk@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The whole point of federation is a variety of moderation styles so it doesn’t really make sense to federate in comments from other communities because it would take away any identity that exists

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Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
People always complain about this but Lemmy does actually combine crossposts in your feed. What frontend are you using? Or maybe it’s just bugged?

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AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
What about that issue do you think is causing less activity? Just people not wanting to engage as much because of the redundancy?

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- surfrock66@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yea, if people get too annoyed seeing the same story in 4 communities, I think eventually they consolidate down to one, and the fracturing reduces engagement across ALL the communities; a couple become ghost towns, etc. It’s a different sense of engagement to see 4 threads with 2-4 comments instead of seeing 1 with 20.
  
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  - AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I’m trying to relate that to the experience back on Reddit, where the same thing happened. Didn’t seem to hinder growth. But often people would abandon the smaller versions of the communities for the larger ones.
    
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