Lemmy Needs to Fix Its Community Separation Problem (popcar.bearblog.dev)

submitted 2 years ago by Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee

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[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

It's not that hard to just check a few of the communities and see which ones are active, and then post to those ones

Everyone will be different, but I can attest that these types of decisions do slow my workflow down:

Which communities could I post to?
Are there any communities my instance hasn't federated with yet? (Check Lemmyverse.net)
Should I post to all of the communities?
Just post to the most subscribed or most active?
Post to the smallest and crosspost to the larger ones?

This can take more than just "a couple minutes", and I'm pretty sure I am in the minority of users, even on Lemmy, who are willing to put in the effort.

Proposal 3 in the article seems to be an elegant solution which also does not give a single community all of the power.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I'm all for making stuff smooth with these different proposals, I didn't mean it to sound like I was not. I was just saying that making things easy is not always the best or most valuable of the goals.