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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 ago
Perhaps instead of mirrors to reddit, we should be working on linking those communities together.

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- Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s happening already. You can see a few communities emerging as “the ones” on their topic
  
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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.

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- 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.
  
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  - 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.
    
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