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?

  • PelicanenEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    You should stop making statements about what other people want and what they think, it’s usually just reductive and incorrect.

    The supercommunity would be a central authority in the same sense that a regular community is a central authority, in the same sense that an instance is a central authority. The supercommunity wouldn’t own all the content, it wouldn’t have to be an exclusive provider, I don’t know what idea you have in your mind that you’re raging against.

    Instead of having to follow fifteen /c/aww communities and scroll through all the other communities that you might want to subscribe to for the content you want, it could be nice to just have to subscribe to one that gathers the content of those fifteen communities and keeps it contained in one location for the end-user.

    What is your issue with that? That it’s too “like reddit”? If that’s the case, are you really promoting an idea or just a reactionary response?

    • @CannaVet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Then why don’t you just…subscribe to those communities instead of demanding it work like Reddit?

      You’re attacking me for explaining how Lemmy works under the implication of “like Reddit or not” while in the same breath screeching that it isn’t like Reddit. If you want a Reddit clone go to a Reddit clone, what’s so hard about that? Giving up the chance to bitch about devs with stated goals contrary to yours not doing the things you want?

      • PelicanenEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        I’m not attacking anyone, I’m saying it’s a feature that people might like, that you could choose to simply not use, that doesn’t interfere with the concept of a federated platform. You’re the one who keeps bringing up reddit over and over.

        Giving up the chance to bitch about devs with stated goals contrary to yours not doing the things you want?

        What are you talking about? When have I complained about the devs?