Is there a way to show all communities for that topic at the same time? Say when someone posts to any aww community it comes up alongside all other posts in different instances? I think this is where my disconnect is, if a client can see all of them anyway, why not have them collapse down on one another client side so you can see all of what’s being posted and not just a slice?
Yeah, I was in a mood when they shut off sync right in the middle of my technobable rant on r/startrek so the first thing I did here was try to find the Star Trek community and found 12 of them but not much discussion going on, eventually found one post but it made me realize how compartmentalized this very open client is. But if a user can see all other communities outside the instance why not just dump everything into one stream like a subreddit while hosting the discussions back to the posters instance. It’s still decentralized, but I feel as if it would be a way to cut down on reposts. Say someone on aww @what.eve.rthefuck sees a cute picture and reposts it 12 times to other aww@boobook.ittyshit (among others) it would be quite obvious who is spamming repost content within the same community. I just feel like conversations here could be much more available than they currently are
I think the idea would be that communities could have tags, and subscribing to a tag would subscribe to all communities with that tag and from there you could still remove any you don’t want. This would also help with search and discoverability.
Is there a way to show all communities for that topic at the same time? Say when someone posts to any aww community it comes up alongside all other posts in different instances? I think this is where my disconnect is, if a client can see all of them anyway, why not have them collapse down on one another client side so you can see all of what’s being posted and not just a slice?
It’s a brilliant idea and it would help a lot communities to be found.
That’s actually a great idea. Maybe have a “auto subscribe to similar communities” box when subscribing.
Yeah, I was in a mood when they shut off sync right in the middle of my technobable rant on r/startrek so the first thing I did here was try to find the Star Trek community and found 12 of them but not much discussion going on, eventually found one post but it made me realize how compartmentalized this very open client is. But if a user can see all other communities outside the instance why not just dump everything into one stream like a subreddit while hosting the discussions back to the posters instance. It’s still decentralized, but I feel as if it would be a way to cut down on reposts. Say someone on aww @what.eve.rthefuck sees a cute picture and reposts it 12 times to other aww@boobook.ittyshit (among others) it would be quite obvious who is spamming repost content within the same community. I just feel like conversations here could be much more available than they currently are
Help me ljdawson@lemmy.world you are my only hope
You found the ones here?
https://startrek.website/c/startrek
I suppose that of all communities Star Trek ought to be most strongly in favor of a united Federation.
I think the idea would be that communities could have tags, and subscribing to a tag would subscribe to all communities with that tag and from there you could still remove any you don’t want. This would also help with search and discoverability.
A request for this feature has been made to the Lemmy Devs on GitHub a few weeks ago