I don’t understand how Lemmy intends to do it when the different instances are federated, if several instances create the same community for example…is that possible?

  • DessalinesMA
    6·
    5 年前

    /u/AgreeableLandscape The communities on different instances will be totally different, with its own posts, mods, etc. So instance1/c/news will be totally different from instance2/c/news.

    • nutomicA
      4·
      5 年前

      Unrelated thought, you think it would be a good idea to send notifications about new comments to everyone above in the comment tree? So in this case, notify you, /u/muirrum and /u/AgreeableLandscape about my post?

      • DessalinesMA
        4·
        5 年前

        I thought about it, because I think that’s the way twitter does it. But IMO for reddit-style it shouldn’t, there are some reddit threads that have dozens of nested comments, where the original parent commenters aren’t even a part of it anymore. I’d personally want mentions to be explicit if they aren’t in a direct response.

        • Serge Tarkovski
          2·
          5 年前

          Totally agree but could it be better to have this setting as an option? In small communities, it could be useful, in large ones could be not. Let’s have a choice.

      • AgreeableLandscape
        3·
        5 年前

        We could have an option to follow a particular point in the comment tree, but by default I don’t think that would be a good idea since discussion tends to evolve as thread depth increases, and notifying users about every comment can cause problems with most of them being out of context.

      • DessalinesMA
        2·
        5 年前

        Having different servers, many of whom aren’t connected, having different “versions” of the same community, that share some data, but not all, would be infinitely more complicated.

        • muirrum
          1·
          5 年前

          I see your point, however I think community fragmentation is an issue that will need to be resolved, and having separate communities for each instance won’t help with that.

          • DessalinesMA
            1·
            5 年前

            What if instance A wants to make a /c/news, and have control over it, but that name is already taken?

            Fragmentation means community owners actually get full control over anything they want to create.

            • muirrum
              1·
              5 年前

              Ah, I see. How will communities across instances be differentiated?

              • DessalinesMA
                1·
                5 年前

                With different identifiers. So if you’ve subscribed to both communities, you will see a posted by X to instance1/c/news, and posted by Y to instance2/c/news.

                Communities are totally different from hashtags, which have no moderation and anybody can put anything they want in them.

                  • DessalinesMA
                    3·
                    5 年前

                    “Fragmentation” of communities is a good thing.

                    If someone starts up a lemmy instance about star trek, and someone starts up one about breaking bad, both of them can have /c/news communities.

                    And from my feed, I can subscribe to both startrek/c/news and breakingbad/c/news