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Why can't magazines/communities aggregate content from other instances? (kbin.social)

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

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When I look at https://lemmy.ml/c/startrek vs https://kbin.social/m/startrek I see two entirely different lists of posts. Why? It's the same topic, just on different instances. How can we have communities about topics without having them siloed into their own instance-based communities? Is this just related to that 0.18 issue with Lemmy/kbin not talking nicely, or is this how the Fediverse is?

Is it (at least theoretically) possible for me to post an article on https://kbin.social/m/startrek and have it automatically show up on https://lemmy.ml/c/startrek, or are they always going to be two separate communities?

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

More like:

I don't understand something I am having trouble wrapping my head around, and so I should ask the community that would best be able to answer my question. I'm not going to switch from Reddit to Instagram, because Instagram doesn't fulfill my needs; why should my evaluation of kbin be any different?

If kbin/Fediverse doesn't work for me, that's okay. It's a really well put together platform, and it's an exciting technology. I hope you guys have lots of fun here for many years to come. That said, if it's not a fit for me, why would I continue to use it?

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

Well it seems I was wrong, you're still here and it seems like you are genuinely interested in the way this all works. However, I hope you can see how the phrasing "oh well, back to reddit" could be taken perhaps not quite how you may have intended it.

It is true that this is not identical to reddit. In fact, I think most of us here hope it will become something better than reddit. Keeping the best parts, excising the worst. Adding new features and interacting better with the wider internet.

I hope that as we get more users, the benefits of instances emerge, but right now there's just not quite enough activity to make it work too well. But the vibe I'm getting from a lot of your comments (I haven't read them all, so I could be off-base) is that you are looking for justification for not liking something about this place, rather than having an open mind.