That’s the problem with federation though, you have 20 servers with 20 communities of the same thing, and there’s not many people redirecting and curating, because everybody wants to be a powermod. When we had the reddit migration it started a chain reaction nightmare of creating an infinite number of dead, useless, redundant communities. I like to use sports as a good example. Fanaticus.social is designed to be the premiere sports instance, yet all the local instances, like .ca or midwest.social, also will have their requisite team pages.
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Norgur@kbin.social 1 year agoWhile we're at it: crossposts in general should go or he handled differently. The way things are, crossposts will create new posts with new comment sections like reddit did. Yet
a) if something is of interest to two communities, chances are, ppl who are interested are already in those two communities, so crossposts will only clutter their feed
b) it splits up the discussion unnecessarily
Why not have corrsposts as mere.links to the original post so everybody can join in? The way things are, each crosspost will turn into a circle jerk of all the same arguments regurgitated by different people in different communities.
canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Norgur@kbin.social 1 year ago
Perhaps instead of mirrors to reddit, we should be working on linking those communities together.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
It’s happening already. You can see a few communities emerging as “the ones” on their topic
ContentConsumer9999@kbin.social 1 year ago
#Kbin has a #feature to kind of deal with this called #collections. Instead of subscribing to all #magazines of a same type or even name, you can put them in a collection (or find a collection where somebody already did that) and then favorite that collection see all of those magazines in your feed. Splitting up the discussion is still not ideal but at least this lets you see all of it at once and increases #discoverability.
canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I wish everything was a bit more standardized between kbin/mbin/Lemmy. It feels like we have these forks of the project that do different things because they emulate different behaviors of other sites, and reaching parity seems difficult without a lot of developer discussion.
I like a few things about kbin but for a while it was the instance causing the most spam on my feed because federated mod actions broke and spam cleaned up locally would not get cleaned on other instances. I saw Ernest back posting again so I guess development has resumed and some of those issues have been banged out.
ContentConsumer9999@kbin.social 1 year ago
Yeah, I believe Ernest had some serious irl issues come up and had to take a step back from development which slowed progress down massively. But ever since he got back, he's been working really hard to fix the major issues and make the instance easier to use.
ContentConsumer9999@kbin.social 1 year ago
#Kbin actually handles this really well. Whenever it detects 2 of the same #thread (at least that's how I think it works), it'll group them and only show one of the threads on your feed. If you click on it, right under the thread will be the other #cross-posted threads on other magazines, each of which has its own upvote/downvote and comment count. You can click on any of those threads to switch to a certain magazine's thread and see the #comments there. Also, when you comment, it only goes to the thread you currently have open.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Lemmy does the latter part as well. You just have a chance to see multiple as well on the frontpage if you’re subscribed to both communities
ContentConsumer9999@kbin.social 1 year ago
Yeah, I just wanted to specify it isn't a mass comment kind of thing.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Interesting, thanks.
Kbin/Mbin seems more and more promising, that’s good