Comment on Pluralistic: The online community trilemma
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
This, worded in far more technical terms than I had understood back at the time, is one of the reasons why I’ve always opposed the idea of “merging” communities in the Fediverse. Merging views is fine, but merging the communities themselves and all that this means (focus, themes, memberships, rules, censorships, timezones…) is just Not.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
We need a mature multireddit like function, and for similar communities across instances to be pre-merged. A function to display comments on the same post cross posted or parallel posted on one page would be useful too. That would help with fragmentation while allowing communities to be independent underneath
Blaze@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Piefed has a multireddit like function in personal and public feeds. It helps a lot with similar communities.
julian@activitypub.space 2 days ago
The potential for abuse or culture clash comes when these disparate (yet related) communities are combined.
From a user perspective it may make sense to expose "related discussions" that you can browse to. Keeping the discussions separate yet linked could be a workable compromise.
CMLVI@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah, this would be good in my mind. I don’t even care if it’s just the communities my instance is federated with only; I would imagine I land with an instance that shares my values, so their federation I’d be OK with (hypothetically). I just don’t want to feel like I’m missing out by being somewhere else and not knowing/being aware of a portion of the community. I want the discussion just as much as I want the information presented.
Blaze@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Piefed has a multireddit like function in personal and public feeds. It helps a lot with similar communities.
https://piefed.world for an instance managed by the Lemmy.world team