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
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    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?

  • iaamp@programming.devEnglish
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    While OP has a point regarding a potential problem, the term ‘fundamentally broken’ is an absolute overstatement. At most, it could be stated that Lemmy/kbin might not be feature complete yet. And i expect, given the crowd sourced nature of it, that it will dynamically evolve into our users combined needs. No need to abandon it!

    Now about the actual point: as others have mentioned, the way Lemmy handles multiple subs on same topic on different instances is good. The communities are easily differentiable via the instance prefix, and if i want both, i can simple subscribe to both, and will see the posts from both in my feed.

    I don’t like the tag idea, because such global consensus about what e.g. a horse is might work for a horse, but not for other terms like ‘politics’, which would depend on the jnstance. If i see a politics sub on an italian instance, i expect it to be mostly about italian politics and related world politics, which is good.

  • tallwookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    when a potential new user comes to join the platform, they’re overwhelmed by the choices. And instead of having one big community of connected instances, we have multiple redundant communities which aren’t interacting at all

    the user will just gravitate to whichever community has the most activity. that’s what I did - I had subscribed to a bunch of news related communities so my “Subscribed/New” feed has new content. and then yesterday I went through and unsubscribed from the dead/inactive communities and noticed no difference in my feed.

    this really just feels like a solution in need of a problem