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

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[–] admin@thegarden.land 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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 6 points 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 points 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

[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Humans tend to congregate so this behaviour is reflected in the online world.