One issue with the fediverse right now is that there are many redundant communities. Like !technology@beehaw.org, !technology@lemmy.ml, !technology@lemmy.world, etc all having essentially the same topic.

I think the easiest solution to this is to take reddit’s multireddit feature, allowing users to create their own “technology” multi-community that includes all the popular technology communities from all the instances. Thanks to federation, the user could interact with this multi as if it was one big community. Perhaps a way to share the multi with others so that all the component communities get federate-mirrored to the new user’s instance would be needed too.

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    1 year ago

    I commented on this else where; perhaps this can be done via two folds:

    1. !technology@ (note the distinct lack of instance domain), which is just a UI aggregation of all the !technology communities followed by the user, and:

    2. #list$user@instance.domain (not fixated on the hash and dollar sign, just using different symbols than what we currently have to make picking out what kind of list we’re looking at easier) as a back-end driven, user managed multi where they could put !apple@instance.domain, !banana@instance.domain, !orange@instance.domain together into one aggregated list appearing on #fruits$user@instance.domain .

    The first type being front-end only shouldn’t require a lot of configuration or changes; the second type being back-end driven could offer a lot of flexibility (i.e.: privacy settings, if other users could see it/pull contents from it, etc.).