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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

As an example: If you have an account on kbin.social you can follow both !fediverse@lemmy.world and !fediverse@lemmy.ml, but these communities stay separate. This often leads to duplicate posts, and splintered communities. What NodeBB and Discourse have done is equivalent to if !fediverse@lemmy.world and !fediverse@lemmy.ml could follow each other, so a post in one of the communities would show up in the other community.

That's a neat feature! I think community aggregation in this sort of way is a positive and it could be useful for lemmy as well.

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm not sure. Similar communities at different instances can have very different rules and vibes. There's a reason people prefer talking politics on Beehaw versus Hexbear.

I like the Kbin solution so far. Leave communities separate but cross-link and deduplicate individual threads from multiple communities in your feed. The implementation at Kbin is still a bit flawed, but the idea is sound.

[–] OlPatchy2Eyes@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I think it's useful if it's a feature you can choose to activate or deactivate yourself on specific groups of communities, but it sounds awful if the decision is made for you.

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