Over the past few days, I've witnessed a remarkable surge in the number of communities on browse.feddit.de. What started with 2k communities quickly grew to 4k, and now it has reached an astonishing 8k. While this exponential growth signifies a thriving platform, it also brings forth challenges such as increased fragmentation and the emergence of echo chambers. To tackle these issues, I propose the implementation of a Cross-Instance Automatic Multireddit feature within Lemmy. This feature aims to consolidate posts from communities with similar topics across all federated instances into a centralized location. By doing so, we can mitigate community fragmentation, counter the formation of echo chambers, and ultimately foster stronger community engagement. I welcome any insights or recommendations regarding the optimal implementation of this feature to ensure its effectiveness and success.

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[–] Weerdo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm, I don't disagree with the fragmentation but that's the nature of any new social platform. It's also been proven out that eventually one or two communities for a topic will become the dominant one with the others falling into disuse.

Attempting to merge communities early or artificially will cause moderator strife as minor disagreements balloon. Especially in a multireddit community where no one mod(team) has absolute control.

I don't have a reason from a technical point of view, but from a social one. Forcing communities and instances together early will only cause strife. After a few years where two communities have a track record and proven 'behavior' would the multireddit not cause issue.

[–] OptimusPrime@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 year ago

Every moderator would have control only over the content displayed on their instances, and not on everyone else, as it should be. The argument about having one or two large communities is a recurring one. There is no reason to have federation if we are going to centralize communities in a couple of instances. Then, if one of those instances shuts down, everyone in those communities would have to migrate. The main benefit of federation is decentralization.

[–] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I read on another post in a different community that some servers have neo-nazis running them? If that is the case, no thanks, I don’t want that.

[–] confusedbonobo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It's possible, it's one of the downsides of being federated. The instances are moderated independendently, there is no central authority that enforces law or morals. It's great to avoid things like what happened to Reddit, but stuff like that can and will show up. You can always block instances to avoid seeing them, if you want.

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[–] ChaosAD@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's easy to block those individual instances if needed (assuming they exist).

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[–] CannaVet@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Another day another "When will the thing not meant to be Reddit be Reddit" post

[–] sweeper@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

on one of my other accounts i am collecting communities that all have the same name across instances just so that whichever place people end up moving to for that is consistent with the others. having them all roll into one would be a massive amount less work and is pretty much absolutely ideal for what i'm trying to do.

there absolutely needs to be an opt-out or even an exclude feature tho. as someone pointed out, some instances are run by not very nice people (tm) and there are also regional-based instances like my native one the aussie zone. yeh sure it'd be great if all the "australia" communities were merged (or most of them at least) but 2nd or 3rd for size is the melbourne community, and there's also a melbourne in florida and people from neither one particularly enjoy being mistaken for the other. region-based communities need to be able to maintain their own exclusivity for community reasons, yeah? another community on the aussie zone is called "gigs" and it's not about rock concerts that happen in new york city if you get my drift. you have a great idea, but it needs to be optional, and easy to withdraw from if desired.

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