I notice that when I search for communities I see the same community has been created on multiple instances. I could subscribe to all of them but I’d much rather it be one larger community. Does any else see this as an issue or find this frustrating? If so, have you done anything that’s made it easier to deal with or have any ideas of how it could be improved in the future?
Personally, I’d love to see all the content merged and have the instance tagged on the post, similar to using flair on Reddit.
I think we’d see better adoption of the fediverse and Lemmy if this could be fixed because the largest complaint I see is the lack of content. There’s a lot of content here, it’s just spread across multiple instances. Just my two cents though…
No.
There’s no need for monoculture - especially on a platform that aims to be decentralised.
Look at it this way - if some town has three gay bars, three metal pubs and three old-man real-ale pubs, it’s not an issue for the LGBT community, the metal community or the drunk old men; they’re just different places to drink. Possibly the drunk gay old metal fans might get confused, but they sound awesome and are likely welcome everywhere.
…actually, thinking about it, I bet the drunk old men probably do have an issue with all eight of the other pubs they don’t go to. But that’s just them.
The drunk old men understand that the more bars there are, the harder it is for their wives to find them.
This is why I think the “city” analogy is the best one. You each instance has different rules, and if you want all the content, you gotta keep up. Otherwise, just stick to one large instance. It’s a brand new choice.
And if one of the pubs closes, there are 8 others to choose from.
I agree. It’s a minor inconvenience that you might encounter duplicate submissions by subscribing to communities that have similar purposes but that problem also exists on non federated social networks. And it allows alternative communities to grow incase one is abandoned.