Re:Lemmy now has over 2M users across 915 instances
by takeda on Saturday July 01, 2023 @01:23AM
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There is actually a ticket on github and is getting some attention now that would allow to combine multiple communities to make them seen at one (kind of like multisubreddits)
Re:Lemmy now has over 2M users across 915 instances
by matsimitsu on Saturday July 01, 2023 @02:13AM
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> You need one account and then can contribute to all Lemmy communities on all servers.
That's not entirely true, some of the larger instances have no open federation policy, meaning the owner of the instance you are on has to get itself allowlisted in order to federate.
In practice this means that you can follow _some_ communities on _some_ other servers, but not all, and not every popular server.
Add that to the fact that some larger instances have stopped federating with each other and you have the current state; a minefield where your average user tries Lemmy, pastes a link into it's search box as instructed, nothing shows up and goes back to Reddit.
Re:Lemmy now has over 2M users across 915 instances
by impissedoff1 on Sunday July 02, 2023 @02:46PM
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Unless an instance you want to visit and be a part of got defederated, this is a huge issue.
The flaw of lemmy's design is that communities reside on a single service, so you will end up with multiple "Science" communities, because in the founding phase several people created such a community of the same name on multiple servers. They should instead have used a hashtag-based approach (granted, problem then is the tight-knit moderation that makes subreddits like AskHistorians so valuable), or implement something like communities subscribing to other communities (like a community-ring) etc.