I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?

I’m a new user myself but have found the experience to remind me of Reddit back in the day, lol. It’s definitely giving me old-school yet modern vibes and it’s great to see something that isn’t Reddit growing in popularity!

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    No, that’s not what I meant :-).

    For example:

    1. I am subscribed to the Technology community on lemmy.ml and the Technology community on beehaw.org
    2. A new smart Dyson vacuum is released
    3. There is a topic on both lemmy.ml and beehaw.org and I see them both in my timeline and I have to decide which one I am going to open and comment on
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      It’s like there is an r/technology and an r/tech with only small differences. Hopefully they’ll either become more different or somehow merge

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        This is what I think people need to understand. This problem also occurred on Reddit frequently. In the early days there were multiple subreddits for a single topic and over time with growth, one of them won out. I doubt lemmy.ml and beehaw.org’s technology communities are both going to grow at the same rate. Eventually one will get bigger faster and become the de facto tech community.

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          The only problem I find with this approach is that it will favour the “main” instances, thus recentralizing the app.

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            I don’t even think it’s an approach so much as an inevitability that certain communities will grow and develop into the de facto ones for their respective subjects. Especially because people are attracted to communities where they can find more discussions. But yeah, I really hope the communities don’t all just end up pooling in the largest instance. Hopefully they grow and develop across many smaller instances.

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      There are probably better solutions but I guess simplest way would be to solve that at the client end?

      Give users the option to merge community views from different instances (maybe too much hassle for the average user), have the client do it automatically for some specified communities, or have a mechanism by which the communities can hint the client to merge their content with specific “friend” communities.

      From users POV the last option would be the easiest (but it should be possible to opt out of it or customize the behaviour). To prevent trolling and harassment the merging would require an authentication from all participating communities. That doesn’t prevent multiple posts on the same subject but if majority of users see the same combined content the likelihood of double posts decreases. It would still spread the load between instances, and if they want the different instances could specialize on different aspects of the subject.

      Just a thought. I don’t know if it makes any sense from technical point, maybe it would be easy to implement without any changes on the underlying protocols or maybe it would require some ugly kludges and would just overcomplicate everything or is something not many people would even need or want.

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        This is why I’m desperate for Apollo to come to the fediverse. Christian would absolutely build these features in and it would make the entire fediverse more accessible.