But wouldn’t it be great if the knitting community (for example) on beehaw.org, lemmy.ml, lemmy.world and feddit.de would be merged for me into one entity for a better browsing experience?
Why wouldn’t they merge on one instance? Seems easier, and can be done today compared to having to ask the developers to implement a complex feature.
I’m curious too, depending on the instance, users can general escalate to admins, and then leave the instance if necessary.
Yes, that’s what I meant by security risk, that’s like a DoS feature.
Lemmy Community Feeder? https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs
And on Lemmy some instances duplicate everything. For example beehaw
Are they not allowed to?
Beehaw exists for people who wanted a heavily-moderated space, and they seem to be doing well activity-wise. Do you want to force them with the rest of the instances?
There might need to be a revamp of the logo to make it a bit more appealing.
What I could definitely see happening would be instance-based merch, especially if the community feeling is strong.
Very interesting, thank you for this
This was only possible because the scale of users on a community is very low (<5000). Bigger communities have inertia effect in play.
40k of us literally left Reddit to come here due to malevolent actions from Reddit.
Migration is different from being able to view all posts of same topic community in a meta form.
Do all people interested in gaming see the discussions happening at hexbear and beehaw on those topics? The meta form seems to deny that there is a reasons why different communities exist on the same topic.
I always like there are basically two types of topics (because after all, communities are focused on a topic)
I know there is the political aspect to take into account, but for me that comes back to the first point: if enough people of the same political side want to talk about something between them, that’s good. If not, they might have to put that aside and go for the second option.
All that said, I think a lot of communities probably should be looking at negotiating a merge.
Strong agree
Don’t want to be ostracized because your user is registered on the wrong politic instance ? Join biggest instance instead.
There are plenty of politically neutral instance. Most of them are, actually, the only ones that come to mind as politically oriented are hexbear, lemmygrad and to an extend, lemmy.ml.
That leaves lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, all the feddit.country, discuss.tchncs.de, sopuli.xyz, reddthat.com, lemmy.zip as neutral alternatives
There are several examples of communities moving from instance to another, or refusing a mod powertrip.
!unixporn@lemmy.world was an attempt from the mods subreddit to get the community back, but most of the people rejected that and stayed on !unixporn@lemmy.ml.
Small scale example, but I like the show “the Office”. !dundermifflin@lemmy.ml is the historical community, but as some people are not fans of lemmy.ml, we moved to !dundermifflin@lemm.ee, which is now the most active community on this topic.
I guess that shows that community takeover is possible, and does not need additional tools, just some time and dedication.
Also, keep in mind that except if there is a real reason (admin/mods powertripping, problematic instance direction), there is no incentive for users to move to another community. But the important thing is that the possibility is very much there, and helps keeping everyone in check.
Meet the new boss, same as old boss.
Who’s Lemmy’s spez?
The main difference of Lemmy compared to Reddit is the ability that communities have to walk away, as I explained in another comment: https://discuss.online/comment/5393546
I already posted to anotherserver/c/books and no one ever saw it.
Did you promote that community on !newcommunities@lemmy.world and other promotion communities? Did you actively post on your new community, to attract users to your new one?
I’m going to take two examples I personally had
I guess that shows that community takeover is possible, and does not need additional tools, just some time and dedication.
Doesn’t !books@lemmy.ml and !books@lemmy.world direct you to yourinstance.org/c/books@lemmy.ml and yourinstance.org/c/books@lemmy.world respectively?
When you go to /c/books on your server, you don’t see an agglomeration of all /c/books on all servers of the fediverse. You only see that server’s /c/books, if it even has one.
What prevents from visiting /c/books@anotherserver?
Genuinely asking, because this is one of the core concepts of Lemmy and federation
Quote posts are still not there, they are on Misskey forks
https://fedi.tips/why-cant-i-quote-other-posts-in-mastodon/
They are on the roadmap, but that doesn’t say much.
Importing posts and comments could cause a security risk if someone would to abuse that function.
Even Mastodon doesn’t support it
Mastodon currently does not support importing posts or media due to technical limitations, but your archive can be viewed by any software that understands how to parse Activity Streams 2.0 documents.
In Lemmy terms, a community could subscribe to another community.
In this case, why not merge?
The current setup cntralizes power into the hands of whoever gets traction first on the platform.
There are other factors at hand, such as the moderation and the instance politics
Thank you!