This post assumes you have a basic understanding of what Lemmy and Kbin are. Which, in turn, assumes you understand at least the concept of federation. The Issue Currently, the way Lemmy/Kbin (which I will refer to simply as “Lemmy” for the rest of this article) work like this: Cool, so our user can access content from both instances. They go to Instance #1 to talk about transporation, and Instance #2 to talk about animals.
  • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I don’t understand. Reddit is exactly the same, it has thousands of different subs, many with overlapping content, many duplicated because someone didn’t like the mods, yet I don’t recall people saying reddit was broken because of it.

    Why is Lemmy suddenly broken just because people naturally do the same reddit thing here?

    Can’t we just ask for a feature like multi-reddit that lets users aggregate different subs into the same feeds (like sort of collections) instead of trying to reinvent the wheel?

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Better solution would be to introduce community collections. I’d love to be able to group “gaming” communities from 5 different servers into one and explore it that way.

  • p3e7@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Yeah the fragmentation isn’t great, but people usually flock together. For instance, you have multiple subreddits for franchises like Pokemon, but over time people will only use the most active or the most specific sub (each PKMN game has its dedicated sub). Plus I believe I’ve read somewhere that communities could be merged in the future. So if we don’t have two or more stubborn mods, that don’t want to work together everything should be fine, probably.