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

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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[–] roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Any update on this?

I couldn't find any comment from the devs. Was there one?

There is an extra problem, not mentioned here. When there are subs with the same name, it is actually impossible to know of choose which sub I am posting to. Like here.

[–] focus@lemmy.film 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

There absolutely needs to be a good way of finding communities here on lemmy, that would probably mitigate the problem a bit. I also like your sticky solution linking to similar communities, but it would be great if this happened automatically (or semiautomatically) when creating communities. As in: oh you are trying to create a "technology" community on your instance? Did you have a look at these ones with the same name on federated instances?

[–] tezoatlipoca@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For what its worth I just spend this morning scraping a list of communities from the dozen largest Lemmy instances. ANd last night for no good reason other than it existed in Reddit, I created !lemmy411@lemmy.ca

Today's Lemmyverse Community Listing: https://lemmy.ca/post/612259

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Love the idea. The drive.google.com is requesting permission, can you make it more open? Or paste it in a pastebin?

[–] tezoatlipoca@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Whups. try now.

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[–] EnglishExile@hqueue.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I kind of like the idea for B. I'm not sure how to determine who the authoritarian figure would be to decide which 'cats' get to be in 'super cats'. Could some be excluded from the super group if they're pro-dogs/racist/etc? Is that against the whole idea?

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