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Is there a way to create Super Communities? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by PotjiePig@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've noticed in the explosion that we are getting duplicate communities in multiple instances. This is ultimately gonna hinder community growth as eventually communities like 'cats' will exist in hundreds of places all with their own micro groups, and some users will end up subscribing to duplicates in their list.

A: could we figure out a system to let our communities know about the duplicates as a sticky so that users can better find each other?

B: I think this is the best solution, could a 'super community' method be developed under which communities can join or be parented to under that umbrella and allow us to subscribe to the super community under which the smaller ones nest as subs? This would allow the communities to stay somewhat fractured across multiple instances which can in turn protect a community from going dark if a server dies, while still keeping the broader audience together withing a syndicated feed?

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[–] courts@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I think just being able in my client to "aggregate" different communities/magazines (I'm writing this from kbin) would be great. Like multireddits. This way, everyone can decide for themselves what smaller communities they want to subscribe to. I think neither Lemmy's clients nor kbin support this right now, unfortunately.

[–] DrQuint@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is what I want. A way for users to create their own "lists" similar to multireddits, which come up on their feeds as part of a super-community, and then they can share that list with other users.

No hassle for the moderators. No change to the system outside of the feature's own self-contained stuff.

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So what should be easier now is finding those communities/magazines, maybe on a post of one of these communities with links to the other ones

[–] Countmacula@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

This is probably the best way to go. It leaves instances separate but allows users to pull what they want together.

[–] Syo@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you can subscribe to individual magazines on kbin, then just show your subscribed magazines. This means you still have to subscribe to multiple communities. Eventually, it should settle with better modded ones reaching critical mass after some time. Everything is in flux right now, what you're looking for is better done when communities are stable.

[–] courts@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, that works of course. What I like to do is look at a specific topic when I want to. Let's say, I'm in the mood to only check out literature/book related stuff. I'd like to open my "Multimagazine" (I saw someone call it a rack, which I think is a nice analogy) where I only see posts that belong to this topic.

[–] Syo@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The only thing that's a bit painful now is finding narrow topics. Reddit had grown so big, you can almost guarantee to look for niche topics. On here, you're better asking /m/random.

In a year or so, if fediverse can grow nicely, maybe we'll be asking top level instance to recommend the best community, and rebuild your niche collection.