For example, are you in !linux@lemmy.ml, !linux@lemmy.world, AND !linux@programming.dev?
it’s not a bug, it’s a feature, also, it’s not a bug, it’s a feature
Also, a bug it is not - but a feature.
A bug it is not, a feature it is.
A feature—a bug, is it not?
Yes
Yes, and I’ve even cross-posted from one community to another trying to reach more help when I asked a question in the Linux help communities.
Yeah, why wouldn’t I be?
It’s nice for viewing, but it can convolute posting. Which one do I post do? Do I cross post? Not a huge issue but still a bit annoying
IMO that is one of the biggest issues with lemmy. If you make one post then potentially 1/3 of people see it. If you cross post it to all communities then lemmy shitty algorithm likes to put all 3 posts right next to each other and that gets annoying fast. Then if someone makes a comment on community As post, but you only picked Bs post then now you miss out.
Agreed. I don’t cross post. The community with the most membership or activity gets my posts, unless there’s a good reason to to support another community.
Cross posting to identical communities doesn’t improve the usability of Lemmy.
Yes, except not the first one bc it’s on Lemmy.ml.
When I started on Lemmy after the Reddit exodus, I started by browsing by All, subscribing to communities that looked interesting, and blocking communities that I didn’t want to see. I figured I’d eventually move to browsing by Subscribed, but more than a year later and I still browse by All. Removing the communities I didn’t want to see, especially the overly prolific meme communities, and blocking the posting bots has made browsing New just fine.
So I guess I see duplicate communities assuming there are posts and I haven’t blocked them.
“Duplicate”/competing communities is not a unique thing to Lemmy or the fediverse. Reddit had multiple competing communities for the same topic–different management.
Just apply the same rules.
I’m in a few but as a general rule I try to avoid most of the ml instance communities because some of them can be a bit on the toxic side.
Generally I stick with the ones that are on the same server as my account i.e. !linux@lemmy.world on my lemmy.world account and !linux@programming.dev on my programming.dev account with exceptions to ones where I don’t have presence on that instance, or I have limited purpose of having an account there (i.e. my lemmy.blahaj.zone account only serves to moderate the Aroace and Agender communities), in which case I usually choose the one which has been most reliable. Part of the reason I did it this way was because in the early days when Lemmy.world had load issues and was being DDoSed federation would have a lot of issues,
Yep.
Looking forward to multi-community support on Lemmy.
It won’t fix the issue of comments being everywhere though. Take this post I made on !bitwarden@lemmy.ml. The same link has been crossposted to 7 other communities with many more comments. I wonder if in the future it’ll be possible to combine comments from various posts about a single link into a megapost of some sort.
Yes, but I only post to one at a time.
Aye.
Yes. I’d really like linux@programming.dev to be the main one but for right now I’m subbed to all 3 I think
Yes, it’s kind of amusing you didn’t cross-post this, in fact.
Yes and it’s annoying. That disperses even further the already small communities
