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Link communities across multiple instances? (feddit.org)

submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by uridl@feddit.org to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I am not very familiar with the technical workings of lemmy, so if this is a really shitty idea, just tell me.

I joined lemmy a week ago and it kind of bothered me that there is not THE me_irl or not THE programming_humor. Would it be possible to add the functionality to link communities together. In my naive opinion, this would solve my "problem" and add the opportunity to not only federate reddit, but to also federate single communities on lemmy.

What would be the pros and cons of such an approach? Looking forward for your comments!

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[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

there is some interesting discussion of the problem and possible solutions (including links to github issues) in this blog post: https://popcar.bearblog.dev/lemmy-needs-to-fix-its-community-separation-problem/

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 hours ago

Ugh. The idea that there are two forums with the same name on different websites focused on similar topics isn't a "community separation problem". The "community" is not separated. There are just separate communities discussing similar things.