I filed an issue on the lemmy and kbin issue trackers to address duplicate communities. If you have an #ActivityPub development experience/knowledge, please take a look and offer feedback. If not, please offer any feedback here.
I filed an issue on the lemmy and kbin issue trackers to address duplicate communities. If you have an #ActivityPub development experience/knowledge, please take a look and offer feedback. If not, please offer any feedback here.
I’m definitely one of those new users who is really concerned about this. In my opinion the second biggest issue apart from UI improvements. Especially now when it’s still unclear which instances stay online and can handle the traffic.
I think my proposal would make content discovery easier, especially for newer users. But, like I said in the proposal, I don’t think duplicate groups is really that big of a deal. And over time, I think it solves itself. Smaller communities either die off or find their own niche.
If a new user finds a community that they’re looking for, that’s a win. Some other community about the same topic that they don’t know about doesn’t affect them. Maybe there’s conversations happening that they’re not a part of, but there are always conversations you’re not a part of (in real life, on other websites, or even on the website you’re using because you can’t keep up with them all) and nobody seems to have an issue with that. What problems do you think duplicate communities cause?