Lemmy Needs to Fix Its Community Separation Problem
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For the unaware, is a alternative to platforms such as Reddit and Tildes. I've been using Lemmy as one of my main social platforms for the past 6 months...
      • Rekall Incorporated@piefed.socialEnglish
        13·
        20 days ago

        You have comments from different communities under the same URL post. “Multicommunities” but without user intervention.

        It does have some drawbacks. For example, under this post, I can see comments from an earlier post (referring to the same URL) from over a year ago.

        Piefed is also a platform, in addition to Piefed servers being instances and clients.

      • flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)@feddit.ukEnglish
        4·
        20 days ago

        Solution 2 in the post, multicommunities. I’m not sure it actually solves the problem though, as you still have to go to the actual community to post and I imagine multicomms add an extra layer of confusion to that.

    • dönerpate@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      20 days ago

      do you know any client that supports this?

      edit: found it piefed.social/post/1258559

  • Derpenheim@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    20 days ago

    Maybe I am misunderstanding something. I am on lemmy.zip, but I see communities from many different instances. How is it segregated?

  • kubofhromoslav@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    19 days ago

    Nice thing would be to have a structured way to clearly present differences between communities of same name. Eg. possibility to link (in machine readable way) in sidebar to other communities and mark them as pure duplicates, or state the actual difference. This information could show also in search and crosspoting dialog.

  • nimpnin@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    24·
    20 days ago

    IMO, a more opionate search would fix this. Just recommend the most active community and show the others in gray.

    • Lumidaub@feddit.orgEnglish
      6·
      20 days ago

      That kills the less active ones and achieves the opposite of what Lemmy wants to do.

      • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        20 days ago

        A lot of the “less active ones” are completely dead. Many mid-tier topics (not niche, but not “meme shitpost”) have a sea of dead communities and 1-2 active ones and it’s difficult to find them without actually clicking through the full list of results.

        • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
          6·
          20 days ago

          Tbh, and I plan to do this for piefed.social soon (and rimu has given me the go-ahead) - abandoned discarded communities with literally zero posts need to be purged by instances. It’s just clutter.

          If a community was active and then isn’t, that’s fine, but a lot of communities are made and then never used.

          • Rekall Incorporated@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            19 days ago

            Tbh, and I plan to do this for piefed.social soon (and rimu has given me the go-ahead) - abandoned discarded communities with literally zero posts need to be purged by instances. It’s just clutter.

            Cool, it’s a good idea. But there are also other instances.

            Then there is the issue of communities with a large number of subs but where the last post was 7 months ago and they have 0 MAUs. While a community with a lot less subs can have several posts per week and at least some MAUs (couple of hundred).

      • nimpnin@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        20 days ago

        It would force you to write a more descriptive name. Maybe we want to hide by community title and not the handle though.

        Say you want to have a community for memes. It is terrible UX if you just see seven different “memes@domainname.ending” in the result. So with an opinionated search, you instead name your community Sopuli Memes, Solarpunk Memes, Programming Memes etc., or just Funny Memes Archive, and they would not be hidden.

      • nimpnin@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        20 days ago

        I’m not sure if the centralization is worse than the large portion of users on the large servers who joining copies of established communities on their own instances. Also, from my other reply:

        It would force you to write a more descriptive name. Maybe we want to hide by community title and not the handle though.

        Say you want to have a community for memes. It is terrible UX if you just see seven different “memes@domainname.ending” in the result. So with an opinionated search, you instead name your community Sopuli Memes, Solarpunk Memes, Programming Memes etc., or just Funny Memes Archive, and they would not be hidden.

    • kubofhromoslav@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      20 days ago

      Technically yes. The problem would be how to decide which community put in spotlight and which in grey (or any other meaningful distinction). Would it be automatic (if yes, how to decide the algorithm), or manual (if yes, how to decide how to left them). These things can be discussed out and solved, but we should be aware that these questions are here.

      And it would work only for real duplicates of communities, not healthy separated communities based on actual, conscious and cherished differences.