Seeing a big “politics” community in both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world just confuses me as to which I should be subscribing to and I don’t really want to subscribe to both.

Guess this is just a downside of federated instances? There’ll never just be one “/r/politics” on Lemmy?

  • @[email protected]
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    1261 year ago

    Honestly, I can see why some people find it annoying but in my experience so far it’s been fine. Do a sweep on lemmyverse, sub to all the communities around a given topic, never really think about which one it actually came from when I see a post in my feed.

    There are some quite niche topics that have been unnecessarily split, essentially just because people want to be in charge rather than joining forces, but that’s people for you and railing about it isn’t gonna get us anywhere. From an end-user pov, subscribing to multiple has been fine.

    • @[email protected]
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      301 year ago

      TMW you realize there’s no downside to joining multiple communities for the same topic, even if they have the same name.

      • @[email protected]
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        291 year ago

        Imo there is, but it’s solvable. Personally, I almost always browse specific communities/subs and almost never scroll through my home feed. So multiple communities is annoying because it means jumping between each one on the list. Could be solved though, by just implementing a Lemmy equivalent to multireddits.

        • @[email protected]
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          121 year ago

          It’s probably the number one feature request so if it doesn’t get put into the core Lemmy UI it’ll almost certainly be implemented by third party apps soon enough. Will definitely be useful, and fun for people like me who enjoy organising things into lists!

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        Yeah it’s natural to be a bit wary I think just because we’re not used to things working that way. Took me a little bit as well but I’ve been here for over a month now so settled into it nicely.

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      221 year ago

      From a different end-user POV, seeing the same stuff repeated is not fun. I would prefer to see everything once instead of choosing between seeing almost everything twice(subscribed to both) or missing a little bit(subscribed to one, blocked the other).

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Oh that’s interesting, I wonder why I’ve not been seeing repeated posts. Maybe a setting somewhere, or a version difference, or we use different interfaces or whatever. Yeah I can definitely see how that would be annoying!

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      181 year ago

      This is why the decentralized approach is great. If mods get their heads too power swollen, one can form their own community and even on their own server if they wish. The approach lessens the potential for abuse.

      • trouser_mouse
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        61 year ago

        Totally agree - it’s a wonderful freedom, but it also means as happened with Android recently that a large community can be closed down and redirected and there isn’t a policy to transfer or reclaim the space if it is locked by the one person who owns it. Not a huge issue now, but come the point large companies are moving to the space it could well get quite messy!

    • @[email protected]OP
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      81 year ago

      Seems like this is probably the answer. We don’t need to not looking for a 1 to 1 replacement for Reddit and the variation we see in communities could end up bringing some vibrancy and more differing opinions on things around here.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        To be fair, this often happened on Reddit as well. I was subscribed to 6 virtual reality subs, and at least that many 3d printing.

        One issue I’ve found with this model is that content is being cross posted pretty heavily, meaning I’ll see the same post by the same person 5 times in the matter of a few minutes.

        I’m trying to keep in mind that it’s still early, and communities are still finding their way. The ones that form an identity will have a larger base, and will become the de facto place that posts are made.

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        41 year ago

        I don’t see this as a “bug” of Lemmy but a feature. What if mods get heavy handed because they feel ‘insulted’ and ban somebody simply out of spite. This gives the ability of somebody to form their own community of the same name on a different server without stifling speech. I sincerely hope that this does not get ‘fixed.’

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        31 year ago

        It’s come in clutch a couple times as well when one instance is having federation issues, but I still get to see other content coming from a community on another one. There’s definitely downsides though, no argument there.

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      Exactly. And if one of them ends up sucking for any reason, you can drop it and be very glad that there were several. That’s very much the point.

      I want to make sure people have a good experience here, but on this one, I really don’t get what people find so difficult about it…

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      This right here is the correct answer. Almost immediately you realize it doesn’t matter.