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Is there a way to create Super Communities? (lemmy.world)

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

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I've noticed in the explosion that we are getting duplicate communities in multiple instances. This is ultimately gonna hinder community growth as eventually communities like 'cats' will exist in hundreds of places all with their own micro groups, and some users will end up subscribing to duplicates in their list.

A: could we figure out a system to let our communities know about the duplicates as a sticky so that users can better find each other?

B: I think this is the best solution, could a 'super community' method be developed under which communities can join or be parented to under that umbrella and allow us to subscribe to the super community under which the smaller ones nest as subs? This would allow the communities to stay somewhat fractured across multiple instances which can in turn protect a community from going dark if a server dies, while still keeping the broader audience together withing a syndicated feed?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about allowing communities to federate with others?

Eg. The mods at [email protected] and [email protected] could decide their communities have the same audience and ideology. They choose to federate with each other so anyone that subscribes to either or both will get posts for both. Mods will then work together to moderate.

Then if 1 set of mods decide to change their policies or go in a different direction they can then de-federate and break the 2 communities apart again.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think this would be the easiest way honestly. It seems the least extra work or changes. Mods don't even need to work together, just with their own posts. If they're too different on their own, they won't federate anyways.

If people really want a supergroup, it would in this situation only take a new community that does nothing but federate existing ones. But it may not even be needed.