I’m loving the wild west of it so far and how quickly it all seems to be growing. One big thing I’ve noticed though: How will communities combat the fracture? For example, take ‘photography’ when I searched around yesterday I found and subscribed to one com. Now there’s one on most of the larger instances, each individually only has a couple of subscribers. We will need to find a way to let our communities stay informed of the other communities as they pop up around the Lemmy verse so that we can unify, otherwise all the communities will remain trapped in their own individual bubbles. This isnt a problem if there was an easy way to group communities into supercommunities.
Maybe Lemmy needs a method of putting your community in a list and allowing people to join the list as a community in of itself thus syncing all like minded groups together into a single feed.
Having separate communities around the same topic could be a good thing? This would mitigate the hivemind phenomenon caused by the voting system with a large user base. You could discuss with like-minded people but keep the opportunity to read diverging opinions when you want/need to.
I would also like “hubs” on topics to discover communities, but a common feed might be counterproductive.
Honestly there’s always been multiple groups for common topics. Just on Reddit I was part of at least a half dozen LGBTQ+ subs, each had their own vibe! 😊
I’m loving the wild west of it so far and how quickly it all seems to be growing. One big thing I’ve noticed though: How will communities combat the fracture? For example, take ‘photography’ when I searched around yesterday I found and subscribed to one com. Now there’s one on most of the larger instances, each individually only has a couple of subscribers. We will need to find a way to let our communities stay informed of the other communities as they pop up around the Lemmy verse so that we can unify, otherwise all the communities will remain trapped in their own individual bubbles. This isnt a problem if there was an easy way to group communities into supercommunities.
Maybe Lemmy needs a method of putting your community in a list and allowing people to join the list as a community in of itself thus syncing all like minded groups together into a single feed.
Having separate communities around the same topic could be a good thing? This would mitigate the hivemind phenomenon caused by the voting system with a large user base. You could discuss with like-minded people but keep the opportunity to read diverging opinions when you want/need to.
I would also like “hubs” on topics to discover communities, but a common feed might be counterproductive.
Honestly there’s always been multiple groups for common topics. Just on Reddit I was part of at least a half dozen LGBTQ+ subs, each had their own vibe! 😊