Fediverse

I think that we should try to not create the same community in different instances, instead of that we should look for that community in existing instances and join it. So far I've realized the short time I've been in Lemmy, you can cross post between different instances and the local instance will show you if a post is also published in another known instance.

Reddit also had competing communities though like r/tech and r/technology or r/games and r/gaming

I think what we are seeing now is the effect of being in the "land rush" phase of lemmy build out, and won't be the norm once things settle down. Really the biggest thing to improve things would be for admins to pre-federate common communities so that when new users search for them they are found, instead of getting "not found" then creating yet another duplicate of the same content.

Eventually people will coalesce around certain communities and bail from others, and that will likely morph over time. I've dropped my subs to all the beehaw communities due to their isolationism, and I suspect others will do the same. Some will like their walled garden, and that's fine - that's what makes the fediverse strong.

... Are you guys for real? Since when is Reddit this centralized heaven you describe? You have r/news and r/worldnews. You have r/funny, r/memes and r/funnymemes and probably dozens of others I don't even know about. NSFW subreddits are like on another level where every single NSFW category has like at very least 5 subreddits and people who post there crosspost constantly.

And every single other platform for commuities has the same situation - on Facebook you could have found groups NHL, NHL fans, NHL 4 life and like ten other NHL communities with duplicated names.

And yet when we come to Fediverse, the BIGGEST F*CKIN ISSUE of the entire platform is that there is fediverse@lemmy.ml and fediverse@lemmy.world

The solution is to somehow merge all the communities into one list for the user based on keyword or something. That way it foesnt actually matter.

That doesn’t seem practical to me — for instance, who would make the rules and appoint moderators for auto-created communities?

my view on this matter, generally

fediverse currently is in its early inception, so it still need to "emulate" current flow of (popular) web service, so of course it will be some "un-ideal" for the "how the fediverse supposed to work" yet

but in time, when the "internet masses" get a grip of what and how fediverse works, the people will see that fediverse itself will show the advantages over "conventional" monoverse

it takes time, just like how today monoverse social media working, understand and get accepted by majority internet users

ex: fediverse@lemmy.world vs fediverse@lemmy.ml

Isn't the point of federation that those communities would federate and then have merged comments sections? Or am I misunderstanding how it works?

I don't necessarily agree that competing communities is something bad, especially once a "lists" and "sharing lists" feature is implemented. It's only a matter of time.

The issue with tags is who's going to moderate them.

The reddit model has an owner responsible for each community. Tags don't, and as such the moderation responsibility over everything falls on server administrators.

Interesting idea for sure! Without any thought to the details or technical side of things, how do you figure the community moderators would be appointed (if the communities are created automatically)?

"The ideal format for a fediverse reddit-like would be a cross between twitter and reddit: a website where if you want to post about a cat, you make your post and tag it with the appropriate tags."

You just described Mastodon. Many instances stick to the default character limit which is still bigger than twitter but some instances don't have the limit or the limit is much much larger.