Comment on The free fediverses should support concentric federations of instances
veniasilente@lemm.ee 5 months agoThe fact that we don’t merge them is one of the great benefits of the Fediverse, actually.
Comment on The free fediverses should support concentric federations of instances
veniasilente@lemm.ee 5 months agoThe fact that we don’t merge them is one of the great benefits of the Fediverse, actually.
Marsupial@quokk.au 5 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.
MisterD@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
And small niche communities might not be so small once merged and would guarantee the survival of the communities.
veniasilente@lemm.ee 5 months ago
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.