That's what happens when servers either shut down or instance admins end up being insufferable to the point that entire communities choosing to abandon the instance.
Not sure what would be an alternative solution given how federation works.
this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2025
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The solution is to not treat communities like official and unique subreddits.
On Reddit there's the PCGaming subreddit. On Lemmy there are more than five. Subscribe to all, or the most active ones, or the ones you align yourself better with... And that's it, there's no need to be concerned about which individual post goes on which individual community for a topic, it will federate and others will read it just fine.
The problem with that is that the threadiverse(?) Is still small enough that dividing it in half means you've reduced engagement by far more than that. Let alone having 5 different communities with the same tooic. Piefed handles Cross-Posts way better though so it's less of an issue for me now that it was on Lemmy.
Won't that just lead to 5 of every topic? Also what do you do find new duplicate communities if there were only 4 when you went looking?
Won’t that just lead to 5 of every topic?
That happens on Reddit even with singular communities. Sure, maybe some topics will come up multiple times.
Also what do you do find new duplicate communities if there were only 4 when you went looking?
Browse the All feed. See a post you like? Check the community. Not subscribed? Subscribe. Simple.
That happens on Reddit even with singular communities. Sure, maybe some topics will come up multiple times.
Yeah, but Reddit has a much larger userbase and in some cases it's good that topics can be split across multiple communities. The Fediverse has the opposite problem.
Yeah I dont see a solution honestly.
A sort of opt-in consensus bases community level federation.
Ex: if a fragmented communities could federate their content so they each drew posts and comments from each other in a sort of redundant cross-posting feature maybe. So a 'memes' community could pull from all other 'memes' communities its instance federates with like they're on a separate circuit.
I remember suggesting something similar somewhere a long time ago and was told it was next to impossible
I think the cross-post functionality is/was the most fruitful effort towards that end.
I think maybe it could be set up that closed communities could be manually hidden from search results, or defunct instances essentially completely delisted. Piefed handles this better because you can directly filter by weekly activity in the community browser.
I mod quite a few of those, most of them were on lemm.ee
Another reminder to decentralize I guess
Yep lem.ee was the big one. Before that the lemmy.film closing was sad.
Many have also left Lemmy.ml and Lemmy.world
!movies@piefed.social and !television@piefed.social hopefully took over
Yep. Also how come everything is shifting to piefed.social?
Piefed offered more features (still does) when lemm.ee shut down.
There weren't that many instances at the time but I just created !newcomers@piefed.zip to decentralize
I moved my community by just adding a notice in the sidebar, should I have done it differently? 😭
3 steps.
- Change the name. Add moved to wherever.
- details in the sidebar.
- one final post plus lock the community.
Thanks, I didn't even know you could lock the community