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If it's free and open source and it's also software, it can be discussed here. Subcommunity of Technology.

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Fighting against anti-lemmy misinformation on reddit (old.reddit.com)
submitted 1 year ago by communist@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org
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Please check my post, I think everything I said is very valid, but I want this community to see it too, and help steer the discussion, I think reddit is doing this intentionally.

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[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@communist federation is an issue when you get multiple communities on the same topic. There is the "technology" community on beehaw, there is also the "technology" community on lemmy.ml, then there are countless communities named the same on other servers as well. But I do not think federation is an issue. I know of at least one site that has the same issue with multiple communities with the same name. And it is centralized. And it has no issue with that.

It's name is facebook.com

[–] communist@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is not an issue with federation, centralized services like reddit have the exact same problem, it's just a problem with anything that lets anyone build a community, really.

[–] deedasmi@lemmy.timdn.com 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been using lemmy for all of like, an hour, but discovering communities is kind of a pain. Wish there was an instance/community browser inside my instance instead of going to a third party site, searching, opening, copy, and then pasting, then subscribing.

I really see no reason why https://browse.feddit.de/ is not integrated into the site.

[–] RaoulDuke@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 year ago

I just learnt about browse.feddit.de from your comment. Thank you.

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

Do you mean something other than https://beehaw.org/communities ? It has a local/all toggle and a search function. On the web interface, it's on the header of every page.

[–] deedasmi@lemmy.timdn.com 1 points 1 year ago

Yea. That will only show communities that members of beehaw are already subscribed to. And importantly, I’m not registered on that instance. That’s not the website I use.

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@communist basically yes. And that would only be aleviated if only admins of a website would be allowed to create them. Which is a kind of hyper centralization not something many people would be fans of.

[–] communist@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but it has nothing to do with federation, so that's misinformation. And we wouldn't want it to be any other way, really.