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tal@lemmy.today 7 months agoI liked the weekly/bi-weekly „What are you playing“ posts, but they seem to have stopped, even on the bigger „games“ subs.
Well, !gaming@beehaw.org and !games@sh.itjust.works both have stickied posts from this week of that sort up with activity. How many gaming subs do you read?
caut_R@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I‘m on another patient gamers sub, and the games sub on lemmy.world. The biggest weakness of Lemmy IMO is how fractured communities can become due to very similar subs on different instances - which this is now an example of, I suppose, since I had no idea about the ones you mentioned lol
I‘ll check them out later, although it obviously doesn‘t help this sub specifically
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
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bassomitron@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Agreed, and also why I think Lemmy will never progress past a niche audience despite being capable of doing so. It’d be nice if there was a feature that allowed instances to merge all like-named communities into a singular one. I know cross posting was meant to help address the problem, but that’s a manual process that falls quite short in resolving the core issue.
tal@lemmy.today 7 months ago
I don’t think it’s that fundamental. I mean, Reddit has one shared namespace, but that doesn’t mean that everyone has to use one keyword. Like, you have /r/guns and /r/firearms, stuff like that.
I do think that making lemmyverse.net’s search feature or something similar that spans multiple instances to help people find instances more easily would help, and putting support for that in clients.
bassomitron@lemmy.world 7 months ago
In regard to Reddit having the same problem, I agree it does to an extent. But like you said, it only allows for synonyms or alternate wording for the same topic in a subreddit’s name. On Lemmy, since instances are different, the fractured communities can be named the exact same thing. Most casual users are not going to realize this and think that the one community they’re in is not active when on another instance, the other like-named community might have grown and is now quite active since they initially setup their subscriptions. They’ll never know unless they happen to run another search and see the alternate community’s user count.
Maybe I’m wrong and it isn’t a big deal. But I do agree that searching and indexing would be a great step in helping discoverability.
can@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Who would decide how it’s run? Different communities with the same name may have different rules or content in mind.
can@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Beehaw deliberately cuts there’s off from two of the biggest Lemmy instances so I wouldn’t expect much there.
tal@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Ohhhh, that’s a good thought. Beehaw.org’s pretty aggressive about defederation when they have problems with users. I’m on lemmy.today, and they haven’t defederated from there, so I’m still seeing what’s current on there.
CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world [bot] 7 months ago
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !gaming@beehaw.org
tal@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Heh, fair enough.
If you hit lemmyverse.net, they’ve got a “search all instances by communities by name” feature, which I think is probably currently the most-realistic way to find communities across all of the Threadiverse.
lemmyverse.net/communities