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Addressing the Exponential Growth of Communities (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Over the past few days, I've witnessed a remarkable surge in the number of communities on browse.feddit.de. What started with 2k communities quickly grew to 4k, and now it has reached an astonishing 8k. While this exponential growth signifies a thriving platform, it also brings forth challenges such as increased fragmentation and the emergence of echo chambers. To tackle these issues, I propose the implementation of a Cross-Instance Automatic Multireddit feature within Lemmy. This feature aims to consolidate posts from communities with similar topics across all federated instances into a centralized location. By doing so, we can mitigate community fragmentation, counter the formation of echo chambers, and ultimately foster stronger community engagement. I welcome any insights or recommendations regarding the optimal implementation of this feature to ensure its effectiveness and success.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

What do you need to know? (As I was typing this g0nz0li0 posted a reply, I'll try to mention different things)

At a low level it's not too bad, if you've gotten this far I think you've gotten through the worst of it. Things get a bit messy when you follow a link or leave your instance though. (Link replacement seems to be the #1 complaint and is extremely easy to fix though. I'd expect it to come quickly)

But for the most part just browsing the various front page at Beehaw should do you. If you're interested in communities going to https://beehaw.org/search and changing it to all will help you find them. Just be wary because they open links that aren't made for Beehaw lol. But you can hit subscribe there and then see them under communities > Subscribed and your front page will populate with them if you goto beehaw's front page (Beehaw.org) and click subscribed instead of local or all. (Which local is communities that were made ON beehaw but anyone can see those if they search for them, and All is posts from every server on the fediverse. So they could be from anything (NSFW seems to be going crazy right now so that's most of my all feed)) There's also a bug right now that new posts get added to the top so the front page experience is a bit frustrating right now.