Γ7ΣJun 1, 2023

Is it possible to merge two existing communities on different federated servers?

https://lemmy.ml/post/1125561

Is it possible to merge two existing communities on different federated servers? - Lemmy

I believe more and more people will escape to lemmy sooner or later, and I already see 3 different communities for the same thing (selfhosted) here on lemmy. Time will tell which one will be the most active, but lets assume all of them will be equally active and the desire emerges to combine the two communities about the same thing, is that something possible or intended to be possible with federated services?

Show threadSafetyGogglesJun 1, 2023

I think this is currently one of the biggest problem of Lemmy on the UX department. Non technical users from Reddit will only expect one "subreddit" for a theme, but if they search on Lemmy, they'll find more than one community with the same topic, and it'll confuse them and make them less likely to come back.

But that's the way how Fediverse work, so I don't think combining two communities should be done from the Fediverse side, but rather each Lemmy instance can curate a "playlist" or "multireddit" that has some of the biggest communities from the users' server and other federated servers about the same topic, and users can subscribe to the "playlist" rather than individual community.

Show threadkrolden
That would be cool
Jun 2, 2023 at 3:24amWeb