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nimpnin@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No thanks. This is a dark pattern towards centralization. Just go back to reddit.

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  • nimpnin@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not sure if the centralization is worse than the large portion of users on the large servers who joining copies of established communities on their own instances. Also, from my other reply:

    It would force you to write a more descriptive name. Maybe we want to hide by community title and not the handle though.

    Say you want to have a community for memes. It is terrible UX if you just see seven different “memes@domainname.ending” in the result. So with an opinionated search, you instead name your community Sopuli Memes, Solarpunk Memes, Programming Memes etc., or just Funny Memes Archive, and they would not be hidden.

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• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That kills the less active ones and achieves the opposite of what Lemmy wants to do.

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  • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A lot of the “less active ones” are completely dead. Many mid-tier topics (not niche, but not “meme shitpost”) have a sea of dead communities and 1-2 active ones and it’s difficult to find them without actually clicking through the full list of results.

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    • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Tbh, and I llan to do this for piefed.social soon (and rimu has given me the go-ahead) - abandoned discarded communities with literally zero posts need to be purged by instances. It’s just clutter.

      If a community was active and then isn’t, that’s fine, but a lot of communities are made and then never used.

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      • Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Tbh, and I plan to do this for piefed.social soon (and rimu has given me the go-ahead) - abandoned discarded communities with literally zero posts need to be purged by instances. It’s just clutter.

        Cool, but there are other instances.

        Then there is the issue of communities with a decent number of subs (much more than active communities) but where the last post was 7 months ago and they have 0 MAUs. While a community with a lot less subs can have several posts per week and at least some MAUs (couple of hundred).

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    • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And that’s exactly what the blogpost is trying to solve.

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    • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think this could also be improved with a better search page, which shows how active the communities are in the search results so you don’t have to click through them all, I think v1.0 is getting that

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  • nimpnin@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It would force you to write a more descriptive name. Maybe we want to hide by community title and not the handle though.

    Say you want to have a community for memes. It is terrible UX if you just see seven different “memes@domainname.ending” in the result. So with an opinionated search, you instead name your community Sopuli Memes, Solarpunk Memes, Programming Memes etc., or just Funny Memes Archive, and they would not be hidden.

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• kubofhromoslav@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Technically yes. The problem would be how to decide which community put in spotlight and which in grey (or any other meaningful distinction). Would it be automatic (if yes, how to decide the algorithm), or manual (if yes, how to decide how to left them). These things can be discussed out and solved, but we should be aware that these questions are here.

  And it would work only for real duplicates of communities, not healthy separated communities based on actual, conscious and cherished differences.

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