Comment on The free fediverses should support concentric federations of instances

MisterD@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• veniasilente@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The fact that we don’t merge them is one of the great benefits of the Fediverse, actually.

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  • Marsupial@quokk.au ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No its the greatest weakness of the Fediverse.

    By grouping them you could be on multiple similar communities on a topic and ensure you’re not going to be spammed with the same article 10 times.

    It would also help alleviate the issue of zero engagement on most niche/focused communities.

    The benefit is needless redundancy.

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    • MisterD@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And small niche communities might not be so small once merged and would guarantee the survival of the communities.

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    • veniasilente@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No its the greatest weakness of the Fediverse.

      By grouping them you could be on multiple

      And sure, we can group them, link them, publish them in podcasts, whatever; but you specifically said merging them which involves only letting one of them exist. I’ve seen a couple good analyses on the issues with trying to artificially merge communities or limit creation of them, such as the points from this.

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