Okay, maybe “undiscoverable” is kind of the wrong word. I’m thinking about users who don’t really understand how lemmy work and don’t know that these tools are available.
During the initial “gold rush”, I noticed a lot of duplicate communities being created on lemmy.world that already existed elsewhere (e.g. !opossums@lemmy.world for !possums@possumpat.io ). These communities I guess just didn’t appear during a search on lemmy.world (since it didn’t know about it).
Honestly, it felt like if you made a community anywhere other than lemmy.world, a lemmy.world version would appear and outcompete it unless you linked it elsewhere or it had a dedicated instance.
Not saying that anyone did anything wrong, it’s just people being unfamiliar with the platform.
Well, duplicate communities might also be on purpose, to lessen centralization. I see many that try to migrate away from lemmy.ml, and this community is one of them. I agree that it might be a bit confusing, but it is easily worked around by subscribing to both communities.
Would it be hard to check if a community already exist in the instance and it’s federeted instance on creation ?
Same logic when I subscribe to a community, I should be able to auto subscribe to any duplicate on the “federation”. It could be an option (like a checkbox newt to the subscribe button) that can be disabled but is on by default.
What is stopping a post on a community to be copied automatically to the other community on the federation ? They could be marked as duplicate and the feed could dedupe this. The comments could be unified. Is this impossible?
I’m new to Lemmy and I’m not a rust dev. Sorry if I’m saying something stupid.
Okay, maybe “undiscoverable” is kind of the wrong word. I’m thinking about users who don’t really understand how lemmy work and don’t know that these tools are available.
During the initial “gold rush”, I noticed a lot of duplicate communities being created on lemmy.world that already existed elsewhere (e.g. !opossums@lemmy.world for !possums@possumpat.io ). These communities I guess just didn’t appear during a search on lemmy.world (since it didn’t know about it).
Honestly, it felt like if you made a community anywhere other than lemmy.world, a lemmy.world version would appear and outcompete it unless you linked it elsewhere or it had a dedicated instance.
Not saying that anyone did anything wrong, it’s just people being unfamiliar with the platform.
Well, duplicate communities might also be on purpose, to lessen centralization. I see many that try to migrate away from lemmy.ml, and this community is one of them. I agree that it might be a bit confusing, but it is easily worked around by subscribing to both communities.
Would it be hard to check if a community already exist in the instance and it’s federeted instance on creation ?
Same logic when I subscribe to a community, I should be able to auto subscribe to any duplicate on the “federation”. It could be an option (like a checkbox newt to the subscribe button) that can be disabled but is on by default.
What is stopping a post on a community to be copied automatically to the other community on the federation ? They could be marked as duplicate and the feed could dedupe this. The comments could be unified. Is this impossible?
I’m new to Lemmy and I’m not a rust dev. Sorry if I’m saying something stupid.