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Lemmy Needs to Fix Its Community Separation Problem (popcar.bearblog.dev)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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I made a blog post on my biggest issue in Lemmy and the proposed solutions for it. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

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[–] [S] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm aware that people are slowly grouping up to one specific community per topic but I don't think this means there isn't an issue with communities being fractured. Using a third party tool to gauge which communities are popular also isn't a great solution. Just searching Linux shows:

I don't think each one of these communities has a different audience. It's the same audience, but there isn't an obvious answer for which one to visit or post in.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Id say that the obvious answer is the Linux community with the most members. !linux@lemmy.ml has more than double the number of subscribers of the next most active Linux community.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    But then you’re on .ml

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    .ml is okay to discuss Linux, the overlap between the two communities makes sense

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The overlap between authoritarians and Linux?

    Well I suppose North Korea does run the closed source RedStarOS.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    what makes you think they are authoritarian?

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Because we all know how tankies are, so stop acting coy.

    Maybe you should go conquer some bread instead of trying to defend maoists and stalinists.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Why does the this ignorant speech infest so many threads? No one gives a shit and any keyboard warrior crap you’re doing in your free time isn’t going to change anything going on in the world.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    An opinion based on knowledge can hardly be called ignorant.

    But if you’re having a bad day, hopefully that lil outburst helped you release some tension.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    no one is defending maoists or stalinists.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    You’re saying no one on .ml defends maoists and stalinists???

    I bet nutomic has Che as their avatar for no reason at all.

    parentis_shotgun posts in juche_gang on reddit for irony?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Sure unless your instance is defederated, we need more ways to control the content without relying on defederation

    It makes me feel like I should be making the post to multiple communities, but then I feel like I'm spamming

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It does kinda suck being defederated from big instances like lemmy.ml because there are big communities there, but at the other end it's nice to have alternatives on different instances. For example, I can't view !programmerhumor@lemmy.ml but I can access !programmer_humor@programming.dev.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sure unless your instance is defederated, we need more ways to control the content without relying on defederation

    Hopefully defederation will happen less and less with 19.X allowing users to block instances themselves

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Yeah I think there needs to be more options though, for admins and for users. Like conditional caching or proxying of images from other instances.

    And not just blocking instances but choosing to block all the users from an instance without blocking their communities, or only blocking their comments not their posts. Also admins should be able to set default blocks that all the users get but can change individually

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And you'll eventually get banned from it for not praising Stalin hard enough

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Spoken like somebody who knows nothing about what they are saying.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Literally spoken as a leftist who has gotten bans for not being a Maoist bootlicker. My accounts with this name across multiple instances are the on a short leash for daring to question ML dogma.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you don't insert politics into normal conversations and you value relationships more than you value being right (left) then this should not be an issue.

    Stay away from the political communities and don't feel like you need to correct people when they spout out political bullshit.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    But I want to discuss politics and worldnews. I'm just not allowed, because wrongthink.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Then keep it in the politics and news communities, and don't be surprised when you are kicked. You don't go protesting at the KKK meeting expecting to change minds just like you don't try to go to !politics@lemmy.ml expecting to change minds. If you are looking for real discussion then don't go to a community that is hostile to the discussion you want to have.

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