For the unaware, Lemmy is a Fediverse alternative to platforms such as Reddit and Tildes. I've been using Lemmy as one of my main social platforms for the pa...

I made a blog post on my biggest issue in Lemmy and the proposed solutions for it. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

  • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    291·
    11 months ago

    I appreciate the effort, but what is happening is option 1, aka merging of communities, naturally.

    About knowing where to post, you can usually have a look at https://lemmyverse.net/communities, search the community name, and have a good idea of which one is the most active.

    Sometimes different communities can coexist, and that’s fine. !science@mander.xyz and !science@lemmy.world have different audiences, and that’s okay.

    • popcar2@programming.devOPEnglish
      149·
      11 months ago

      I’m aware that people are slowly grouping up to one specific community per topic but I don’t think this means there isn’t an issue with communities being fractured. Using a third party tool to gauge which communities are popular also isn’t a great solution. Just searching Linux shows:

      I don’t think each one of these communities has a different audience. It’s the same audience, but there isn’t an obvious answer for which one to visit or post in.

      • stown@sedd.itEnglish
        10·
        11 months ago

        Id say that the obvious answer is the Linux community with the most members. !linux@lemmy.ml has more than double the number of subscribers of the next most active Linux community.

        • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
          11·
          11 months ago

          Sure unless your instance is defederated, we need more ways to control the content without relying on defederation

          It makes me feel like I should be making the post to multiple communities, but then I feel like I’m spamming

          • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            Sure unless your instance is defederated, we need more ways to control the content without relying on defederation

            Hopefully defederation will happen less and less with 19.X allowing users to block instances themselves

            • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
              3·
              11 months ago

              Yeah I think there needs to be more options though, for admins and for users. Like conditional caching or proxying of images from other instances.

              And not just blocking instances but choosing to block all the users from an instance without blocking their communities, or only blocking their comments not their posts. Also admins should be able to set default blocks that all the users get but can change individually

              • Blaze@discuss.onlineEnglish
                1·
                11 months ago

                That would be nice indeed, but with the development rhythm, it might take a while to get there. Sublinks on the other hands seems promising sublinks.org

          • stown@sedd.itEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            You don’t need an account on lemmy.ml to subscribe to any community there. For example, I run my own self-hosted instance and none of the communities I’m subscribed to are from my own instance.

            • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
              36·
              11 months ago

              The overlap between authoritarians and Linux?

              Well I suppose North Korea does run the closed source RedStarOS.

                • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
                  23·
                  11 months ago

                  Oh like me?

                  Yeah we do overlap with Linux, the tankies however don’t.

                • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
                  27·
                  11 months ago

                  Because we all know how tankies are, so stop acting coy.

                  Maybe you should go conquer some bread instead of trying to defend maoists and stalinists.

                  • willya@lemmyf.ukEnglish
                    32·
                    11 months ago

                    Why does the this ignorant speech infest so many threads? No one gives a shit and any keyboard warrior crap you’re doing in your free time isn’t going to change anything going on in the world.

      • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        5·
        11 months ago

        In this case, it’s the first, which is obvious based on the number of subscribers and active users. You don’t even need a third party tool, it’s literally in the sidebar

    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      , but what is happening is option 1, aka merging of communities, naturally.

      [citation needed]

      I don’t see any community that has been mechanically, forcibly moved over to another instance. I can still post to !cats@a.net and !cats@b.xyz separately.