How are you managing your interaction with redundant communities?

For example, I’m on Lemmy.ml and I’ve joined !photography, !photography, and !photography. In this example, it’s not very different from the number of similar groups on Flickr but, in comparison to Reddit, it seems like the decentralized platform can be a little unruly.

How are you going about joining different communities and managing your engagement? Are you only participating on the community on your instance? Are you joining and posting in as many instances that seem relevant?

mp3,
@mp3@lemmy.ca avatar

For now I subscribe to multiple communities, but I really hope the Lemmy devs figure out a way to let each user create a community group.

The way I envision it is that you can create a group where you can combine communities on your end, and you can then cross-post to these communities when you post to that community group.

On the other hand, there would need to be a way to ensure that cross-posts aren’t generating a ton of duplicates to those subscribed to multiple communities, and I’m not sure how the comments on these cross-posts should be dealt with. Maybe the comments should be kept separate per cross-post, or maybe if you have these communities in a group there could be a way to display the comments from there multiple posts together, to ensure all those crossposts have a change to get some interaction on other instances?

Then there’s also the possibility of spammers abusing the system.

There is still place for improvement.

wifixmasher,

There’s a browser extension that does something similar. lemmy.world/post/848505

adonis,
@adonis@kbin.social avatar

nope, users MUST not create groups and cross-post to these groups...

I don't want idiots to put gonewild and technology into the same group and see their dicks in my feed... I'm fine with boobs, but no dicks.

mp3,
@mp3@lemmy.ca avatar

Some restrictions could be added to avoid dumb mistakes like this, like how you cannot add NSFW and non-NSFW communities in the same group

rikudou,
@rikudou@lemmings.world avatar

I mean, adding a cute dog photo to a Linux subreddit is not ideal as well.

HollowNotion,

So… by “users MUST not”, you mean you’d prefer if they didn’t.

jsveiga,

I started by joining only one instance (vlemmy.net). When it went down, I realized I needed more, so I joined 3.

As for the communities, I subscribed to whichever clone had more traffic, among the ones I’m interested in.

I comment and post from whatever instance I’m logged on, as sometimes - especially in the recent weeks - one or two are temporarily down.

starman,
@starman@programming.dev avatar

You mean that u created 3 accounts on 3 different instances? Why?

Talose,

Not to be rude, but they clearly explained why. I did pretty much the same thing after my main account on Vlemmy died

starman,
@starman@programming.dev avatar

Okay, after reading it several times I think I got it, thanks for pointing it out.

jsveiga,

When vlemmy.net died permanently, it took my only login into lemmy, and my list of subbed communities.

Having learned the hard way about the volatility of theninstances, I don’t want to have to go through the login creation and resubbing communities everytime this happens, and I like my login (it’s the same for everything sinxe the 90s), so I created “fallback” logins in other instances (sh.itjust.works, feddit.nl, lemmy.world), as backups, and also to “reserve” my login name.

I have all of them configured in Jerboa, when any of them is down, I just switch. Interestingly, the one that I’ve never seen down is the smallest, feddit.nl.

jsveiga,

Here’s me from feddit.nl.

jsveiga,

Interesting, came from lemmy.world to say hi from there too, but this is your last comment in the thread when accessing from there. It’s one of the largest instances, but the slowest of the 3 I use.

AFKBRBChocolate,

I’m joining all the ones I’m interested in, redundant or not. I’m looking at all the posts, wherever they are, and commenting on them regardless of where they are if I’m inclined. If I want to make a post, I tend to do it on the largest or most active version, and I don’t tend to cross post.

MonkRome,

I’ve never much cared for the details of a lot of communities/subs outside of very specialized ones. I’m going to participate if the topic is interesting and learn about the rules as I go. There being multiple communities for the same thing was pretty common on reddit.

rarely,

I don’t even know man this shit is so confusing. I used to just comment and upvote when I saw shit I liked but now how will I know if the shit I liked came from one server or another. This is just madness we can’t keep treating people this way!

Blaze,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

That’s the thing, you don’t have to care which server is comes from. You can just comment and upvote as usual.

rarely,

But then how will I know which instance is the real one and not the impostor? What if I join an itailian instance, will I be the impasta?

Blaze,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

If you have two friends called Tom, are they the same to you? You are [email protected], if a [email protected] or [email protected] comes up, he will not be you

rarely,

I’m sorry, but I think we’ve fallen victim to Poe’s Law here. Fret not, I understand the concept well, I was just cosplaying as someone who did not, laregly out of frustration for mankind’s dependency on centralized services.

Blaze,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

It’s okay, sarcasm is hard to convey on the internet. Have a good one

Blaze,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

If it’s a niche interest such as photography, I would just subscribe to all and see which one is the best over a few weeks.

If it’s a more dynamic topic such as technology, I will go for the most curated version if it (Beehaw communities are usually good ones, at least to me), and only subscribe to one. Otherwise I’m getting overwhelmed with multiple occurrences of the same article.

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