What we’re really lacking on the ui end is a way to see groups of identical communities that are on different federated platforms. Hence the idea of a dom-lemmy. The way it would work is lets say you search for a cat community called “cats”, there’s at least dozens of them out there already. Instead it would return the cats dom-lemmy, with the option to either drill down to a specific instance, or to merge all sub-lemmys called cats into a single view

  • Captain Janeway@lemmy.world
    25·
    1 year ago

    This is definitely something being discussed: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1113

    I personally don’t really stress over finding the different communities. I just subscribe to the ones that have a critical mass of users or - if there isn’t a community with a lot of users - I just subscribe to the one local to me. If there isn’t one local to me, I just randomly pick one.

    • thecdc1995@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      Same here. I think people put undue meaning on the idea of having one single canonical correct place for a topic. Classic FOMO.

  • tallwookie@lemmy.world
    21·
    1 year ago

    the users will organically migrate to the most popular sublemmy over time & the rest will close or be ignored.

    • NataliePortland@thegarden.land
      9·
      1 year ago

      I sure hope not. It does seem to be leaning that way, but it would sort of defeat the purpose of decentralization right? I guess you can’t change the course of the river. I started a small instance with a focus on gardening, and it’s growing slowly. I wonder if smaller instances would grow more evenly if they were focused on regions/ countries/ cities or with a focus on topics? Either way it’s interesting! We’re just getting started here. Things are going to change. I wonder what we’ll say a year from now.

      • Bells@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        5·
        1 year ago

        I have nothing to contribute to the actual conversation, I just wanted to point out the way you worded that your “gardening instance is growing slowly” was funny.

      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        I think communities will naturally move to larger subsbutt as soon as a controversial choice is made by the mods it will split off again.

        Its also important to note that all the biggest subs shouldn’t be on the same instance

    • cakeistheanswer@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      3·
      1 year ago

      In the days before Reddit ‘won’ you used to be able to find tons of niche sites/boards cultivating smaller audiences. Beer advocate/rate beer, headfi and whatever the latest splinter was there in the audiophile community both come to mind. There’s generally more division by which each might find more ‘aligned’ or maybe their friends are on one first.

      I don’t know if it’s possible to predict, social dynamics are weird and this is going to be new for a giant segment of the audience.

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
    16·
    1 year ago

    I don’t necessarily think that should be an automatic process—communities with the same name on different servers don’t necessarily mean the same thing (e.g., r/trees).

  • lixus98@kbin.social
    16·
    1 year ago

    Any grouping of communities/magazines should happen client-side only. So that people can choose what to group.

  • Chraccoon@lemmy.world
    16·
    1 year ago

    Maybe communities could set, voluntarily, some sort of tags that can be subscribed to or used for search.
    With that idea, cat memes, cat owners, cat pictures, etc. could all be viewed together if they include a #cat tag, regrouping them, but without a hierarchy.

    • atypicaloddity@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      My understanding is that here on kbin, a magazine can set a list of tags and toots using that tag will show up in their microblog feed.

      Which is a bit different, but cool

    • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      1 year ago

      Something like the user tags on Steam games could work well: give the users the ability to submit and vote on tags, give the moderators/admins the ability to remove and blacklist ones they don’t like, and let the community sort everything as they see fit. Searching and displaying them could then be "show me everything with the tags “cute AND (cats OR dogs)”

  • bdonvrA
    11·
    1 year ago

    Multi-communities would be a nice feature but I really don’t like people thinking it’s “the solution”.

    Give it a little time, one community for every topic will emerge as the de facto place to go. Same happened on Reddit.

    Besides, multi-communities kinda help browsing but not posting.

  • thanksbrother@kbin.social
    7·
    1 year ago

    You know, not EVERYTHING has to be discussed in a way that puts your interest in kink on display for the world 👀

  • corm@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    You would have to know to search for “cat” though and that’s not always clear.

    For example say I’m part of a sub for the steam deck (I am), instead if figuring out what to search for to get related subs I would rather be able to see a cluster of related subs on the sidebar, automatically generated.

    That way instead of trying to figure out what to search for, it just clusters based on the current sub information.

    • CMLVI@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      The way sports league subs magazines or whatever handle it is the greater league magazine, and then each team has their own team-specific place. It largely in effect already; you have the overarching “video games” sub and then specific games usually have their own sub for game-specific updates (here is what a vendor is selling today, build discussion, etc).

      The issue with federated would be each instance is likely to have their own “parent” sub, with the specific ones probably falling to whatever instance has the established population.

      It would be helpful, I think, for these “default” subs to have like a repository of sorts. Large topic subs all contribute to the same silo, and instances can pick what interactive content they get from the instances regarding comments and such. But that sorta defeats the de-federation tactics by link and article posts, but I imagine attack posts probably wouldn’t fly in the vast majority of instances.