This, worded in far more technical terms than I had understood back at the time, is one of the reasons why I've always opposed the idea of "merging" communities in the Fediverse. Merging views is fine, but merging the communities themselves and all that this means (focus, themes, memberships, rules, censorships, timezones...) is just Not.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago (8 children)

We need a mature multireddit like function, and for similar communities across instances to be pre-merged. A function to display comments on the same post cross posted or parallel posted on one page would be useful too. That would help with fragmentation while allowing communities to be independent underneath

[–] showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So if I understand you, Lemmy would benefit from a grouping above /c that’s not instance related? Like Usenet had the rec.cats group which spawned rec.cats.siamese? So maybe a /u universe? If I wanted to read about television I could go to u/television which could merge feeds of c/television@piefed.social and c/television@lemmy.world and any other c/television@.? I could see possibilities of abuse but we shouldn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Maybe a /u could be an opt in thing with a manager of some kind to prevent unrelated /c’s from randomly joining.

[–] julian@activitypub.space 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Isn't that basically a Piefed topic?

[–] showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is it? I’m on a Lemmy instance and I use Voyager as my daily drive, so I’m pretty behind on Piefed. But that does sound like a good idea.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

https://piefed.social/f/telly

I made it into a feed. Users can make feeds on piefed and combine communities together.

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