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So we have separate Android communities running on separate instances. I can't see how this community splintering can be a good thing.
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As time goes one community will emerge as the main one while other would dry up and naturally become obsolete (until people get angry with the mods of main one and start looking for alternative community, similar to how there are r/truegaming, r/true(x) etc for popular subreddits.)
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There are many open PRs on lemmy github on how to aggregate similar communities. For example there is a suggestion of making an auto multireddit like thing, m/gaming for example, that would merge posts from every c/gaming community (not sure how this would work with defederation and stuff). With enough demand, something like that can be added to lemmy by an experienced dev.
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Don't like the direction of one? You get options. Like them both? Subscribe to both. It's like getting Gamers Nexus and LTT, different perspective but overlapping community.
It's just like having different subreddits about the same topic. Just subscribe to both.
I think what he meant is why launch a second exact same community, with merely 300 subscribers, when there's already an established one like !android@lemmy.world which has now more than 15k subscribers? I noticed that behavior with the r/neovim mods too, they refused to join an existing community. My guess is simply that they want to be in a community where they are still in charge of everything, they're too addicted to their mod "powers" to let go of them.
Back to OP, I think the whole thread and the way r/Android mods just hoped to absorb users of this community is completely inappropriate and simply disrespectful.
Same reason there's been games, gaming, truegaming, patientgaming, etc. Overtime each community can come to develop their own style.
But they're the same topic, so there's a good chance there's gonna be repeated content across both. Particularly if not everyone is subscribed to all instances.
I'm subscribing to both, but will be interesting to see how duplicate content across instances are federated in the future.
If two of the same topic is posted, the one in the instance with more people will be higher on the active list than the other, so if you're subbed to both, you'll see that one first and interact with it. I've seen duplicate topics across several of my subs on Reddit regularly.
Are there any Lemmy clients that support viewing multi-communities? For example, I'd prefer viewing all posts for all instances of Android over the combined subscribed list.
I thought that was built in to all Lemmy clients. All non-home instances I'm subscribed to are presented as @instance because the instance location is just as important as the sub's name.
Just to clarify, I don't want to view all of the content from my subscribed communities in a single view. I want to be able to tap on something like Android and then only view the content from all instances with the same community name that I'm subscribed to.
I wouldn't even want it restricted to the same community name, make it customizable. I'd love to be able to set up Android and FossDroid on the same feed for example. Or all the different selfhosted/homelab/datahoarders/etc. communities.
Not right now. I imagine this would be added in an app sooner than the official distribution due to priorities.
Yeah but I'd see one, scroll a little further and see another. Then scroll a little further and see another. Sure you might see some repeated posts on Reddit, but the problem is exacerbated if there are multiple instances of the same topic.
For example, if I saw the same post on /r/Google and /r/Android. The problem could be four times or more worse due to there being multiple instances of Google and Android federated.
I'm enjoying Lemmy, but it'll be interesting to see how this might be dealt with for those that want a single feed per topic.
It's not hard to dedupe content. My RSS client has a feature that can hide duplicate articles based on a few different parameters. It's not impossible to add something to Lemmy that does the same
Also, back in reddit ancient history, there used to be a feature called "other discussions" which let you see the same link's comments on other subreddits
That'd be great if my subscribe hadn't been pending for days.
I think that's a bug, and doesn't mean anything. Unless there's a new bug I'm unaware of, which is completely possible.
I get your point but there is a good solution for this.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1113
Basically a feature request to have the option for multi subreddits or communities. This way we get centralized content without the disadvantages of decentralization.
This feels like the argument people made against Android when Google announced that any manufacturer could have their own separate distribution.
And it was a huge problem
not really. Android's customizability is what makes it better.
🤷♂️ guess agree to disagree.
not really. Android's customizability is what makes it better.
I'm with you. I'm already seeing duplicate posts/links shared across instances. Trying to work out how managing subscriptions will look as the platform grows.
What Wander replied. Also you can subscribe to which community has the most subscribers/most active. Having a couple communities of the same topic can also mean the communities can be smaller than one huge community. A smaller community can have better discussions than one huge community.
Friendly competition is always good.