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this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2023
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My problem is the same community on different instances. I block it once place but it pops up again on my feed in another instance.
Yeah I find it sometimes helpful that multiple people can run communities in different instances but ATM it would be good if a few people created alternatives to set reddit like communities and we all go from there. Maybe it's a project someone could work on.
The main issue is that different people prefer different approaches based on instances
All of them are valid, but those different views prevent merging the communities
That's fair enough, I know that I want to see smaller communities to grow such as ones for certain games and creators. Making it into a place not only for Techy people is what the Fediverse needs to grow to wider audiences.
But this just ends up defragmenting the community as a whole and leads to doany re-posts.
I would love an option to auto hide cross-post tbh.
Also on a side note, when larger Lemmy instances open up communities which may be already established, kinda defeats the purpose of decentralisation. Like Piracy Community at .world was started after it was defed -> refed with the Largest Piracy community.
Lemmy.world has most of those because it's the biggest instance. If size is what you want, that's probably where you should look.
If your instance is kbin not mbin, when you search communities it probably doesn't give you the real subscriber numbers, only number who subscribed from your instance. You should look at number of posts to get a better idea.
Mbin fixed this I think.
Yes Mbin fixed this, my instance runs a version of Mbin and I love it, sad we are missing a few things from Kbin but the quality is better in the end. I'll have to look at more Lemmy.world communities as that seems to be where most people end up
@SamXavia yeah, I think it's what you're looking for in terms of being closer to the reddit defaults.
You're never going to get all of us to agree to close smaller communities and flock to the biggest, because the strength of federation is decentralization and for some of us it's important to have communities on more than one instance.
For example the biggest movies community is on Lemmy.world, Kbin has one, and Lemm.ee has a sort of hybrid one with television mixed into it. Then as you can see from the Kbin collections page there are little niche ones about film frames, trailers, etc.
If lemmy.world goes down there are still plenty of places to go.
I think bigger niche communities are going to form organically over time and the anxiety we see is just growing pains as people get their heads around federation.