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Lemmy needs better integration/federation. Too much content is hidden. A community on the biggest instance was not visible to me on another large instance. (self.fediverse)

submitted 10 months ago by Anon518 to c/[email protected]

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I did a search from shitjustworks for "reddit die" and did not find https://lemmy.world/c/watchredditdie so I made https://sh.itjust.works/c/watchredditdie (unnecessarily). This should really not happen. When someone makes a community there should be a "ping" sent out to notify all other federated instances.

And from what I know, if I post to !sh.itjust.works/c/watchredditdie only users on sh.itjust.works will see the posts until other people from other instances randomly come across it somehow and subscribe? This really needs to be improved.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (20 children)

Lemmyverse.net show both communities: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=watchreddit

It probably didn't show up in the first place it only has 66 subscribers, and probably none on SJW.

About your second point, you indeed have to promote your community, using [email protected], or related communities. This works quite well usually.

I will add that in your case, people knew about your community as you posted in other communities, but as discussed then, people seemed happy with the existing Reddit-focused communities.

[–] Anon518 17 points 10 months ago (19 children)

This works quite well usually.

I definitely don't agree. I think this is very problematic. I rely on all to find new communities. I don't think one newcommunities sub is a valid replacement. It would suffer from the same issue -- people would have to spam their post to every single instances's newcommunities sub, which is ridiculous and not even viable.

[–] can 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

But your solution would require every new instance to subscribe to every community in existence even if no users there care about certain ones. It's innefficient.

[–] Anon518 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How would you know no one cares if no one can even see them...

"Inefficient" doesn't seem important since if there's no content/activity there then it doesn't use any resources.

[–] can 4 points 10 months ago

I agree community discovery could be improved but let's say I had an instance with 200 users and none speak German. Would it make sense for my instance to still pull everything from the German language communities and clutter an All feed where no one can read it? Or is it better to wait for a German speaking user to register and actively choose to participate in those communities before federation begins?

I think the way federation works as a whole would have to be reworked for your solution. Simply federating with all communities not on your black list isn't the best solution.

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