Communities on different instances about the same topic should have the option to essentially federate so a post on one appears on all of them and opening any of them shows you the comments from all of them. This way when lemmy.world is down its not a big deal because posting to any news community federates to all of the communities instead of barely having people see your post. Federation could be decided by the community mods and the comments can have a little “/c/communityname@instance.name” on it so you know which community the comment was originally posted on.
Yeah seeing same article about american politics posted cross half dozen communities on different instances really is killing my feed.
Sounds like clients need to improve. Detect posts with same links and group them. Maybe server side allow users to categorize or tag their communities so it’s easier on client to organize them. Clients should also allow the user to set rules and conditions on those feeds.
Problem is we can’t have both ways. You can’t force all users to receive all news posts into a single feed and claim it’s distributed. Features. We need more features on the client side to solve these problems and improve the experience.
We have to get out of this 90s software architecture mindset and start thinking bigger. We don’t want to limit ourselves and build another Reddit because someone dislikes the growing pains of a new platform.
I like the idea. I suspect it would make moderation a challenge but it sounds pretty useful
If all federated communities could decide upon to regulate same rules, every one of them could be moderated by their own moderators. But the problem I see here is the things that’s being federated is in reality server itself which means it would be impossible(not sure but at least not necessary) to do such a thing. But anyone can easily build an app to collect posts from same communities, it does not require to play with activitypub, just lemmy api.
This was the idea behind MultiReddits if I’m not mistaken. In which case a simple operator like:
Fediverse@lemmy.world+Fediverse@lemmy.ml
Could get baked into the Lemmy core to allow this to work.
Basically you can see multiple subreddits of your choosing as if they are a single subreddit.
On a vaguely similar note, it might be cool if using the crosspost feature pooled upvotes from the various crossposts, and only let one of the crossposts show up in anyone’s All feed at a given time. It would make having multiple splintered communities for one topic less annoying, encourage cross-posting, and reduce spam when someone crossposts something to 5 communities and all 5 show up on your All page.
To really work I think it would have to pool comments together too - but then you run into issues with moderation. I’m not sure if there’s a good way to fix that issue.
Keeping communities separate is the simplest way to go, tbh. Sharing karma could lead to weird brigades, like r/ScreenshotsAreHard cross-posting from every picture of screens on the Fediverse and then mass-downvoting from there.
To me, the best solution would be to implement multireddits. That way, you can have your cat multilemmy of 100 communities without affecting your main feed, but you could also do the same for related or identical communities. Plus, moderators could create a multilemmy and display it prominently in their sidebar.
Being able to subscribe to a multi would solve that issue
Wouldn’t a multilemmy still run into an issue where duplicate posts or cross posts show up multiple times in a feed?
There is a really interesting dev discussion on this topic here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3033
There are requests for this in the works. If I didn’t have almost 1000 comments I would find the links but there’s no search function for comments :/
Ah I found it!
https://lemmy.world/post/318115
All 3 of those links are broken. For some reason you put [1], [2] or [3] in each URL.
https://lemmy.world/post/318115
I just copied them from my comment…
Now your urls have the same thing!
Is it just me?
OHHH I know what it is. It’s an extension for lemmy that adds numbers at the end so you can press 1 and go to link 1 etc.
I wonder if I can turn that off.
