In theory something like a !gaming community could crop up on multiple large instances, especially during the mass exodus while instances are getting hammered with spikes in volume.

If that's the case, we'll have fragmented communities across instances. Is there any way besides subscribing to each of them to combine them into a sort of multi-reddit type aggregation? Or is this considered a temporary (albeit important to adoption) problem during the crazy stages?

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[–] ritswd@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also struggle to see the issue here. People will subscribe to the various communities across instances, and they’ll quit the ones they don’t like, thereby making the best ones rise to the top, just like it works across subreddits of the same topic.

I guess the concern is discoverability? On mobile web, Beehaw’s homepage show “Local” (not sure if just Beehaw or all instance). It’s true that it’d be good if the default was “All”, so discoverability isn’t fragmented.

[–] JohannesOliver@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All on the homepage? Strong disagree on that one, I’d rather subscribed was the default. It doesn’t really matter since it is easy to change it.

If I want to discover new things I can click all myself.

[–] ritswd@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hah, yeah, that’s a good point. Right now (at least in Beehaw), it’s “Local” though, which feels like the worst of the three.

[–] JohannesOliver@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah I think it is. If you go to settings you can change the default (under “Type”).