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Redundant communities across instances (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As a new reddit exile, I may be misunderstanding this.

In theory something like a !gaming community could crop up on multiple large instances, especially during the mass exodus while instances are getting hammered with spikes in volume.

If that's the case, we'll have fragmented communities across instances. Is there any way besides subscribing to each of them to combine them into a sort of multi-reddit type aggregation? Or is this considered a temporary (albeit important to adoption) problem during the crazy stages?

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

Oh man, it's going to be so much fun to have to group similar communities when there are hundreds of instances! 🙃

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this is still easier than having a bookmark list of 40 forums.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think keeping up to date with 40 web forums would actually be easier and less confusing than doing the same with 40 Lemmy instances.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Interestingly you are bascially saying its a UX issue not a fundamental one.

Manageable over the term.

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

Correct, IMO it’s purely a UX issue.

I think the current default UI feels awkward because it’s essentially trying to present dozens of individual web forums through a Reddit style interface.

Edit: which makes the argument that this isn't a problem because Lemmy isn't Reddit seem funny since at least to me the problem stems from Lemmy trying too hard to replicate the UX of Reddit.

Also, could we have a confirmation dialog for deleting posts. It's a bit too easy to accidentally hit the trashcan, especially on mobile.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah certainly not giving the UX a pass more than "it is what it is right now" def needs update, though I agree making it "more like reddit" is not likely the best play.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sorta starting to miss the days of usenet and web forums. Although it was all spread over several "instances" it was still discoverable and nicely hierarchical and it was easy to get an over view of the activity and current topics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

loaded up IRC yesterday, the "more simple" Uis are still easier to process, but people hate them. Id go back to vt100 and macros for social. Just give me some basic rendering for images and rickrolls.