I’m new here, and have been looking into different communities to subscribe to, it’s pretty difficult to decide which ones to subscribe to when theres often the same community on more than one server. (Example: internetisbeautiful on @feddit.de, @lemmy.ee, @lemmy.ml)
I’m not super savvy but couldn’t they merge them and have the community hosted as mirrors of each other on both for redundancy? If I’m wrong, do correct me, again, not super savvy and also new here.
Other people have already given more than enough answers, but welcome! I’m glad you’re here 😊
you can just subscribe to them all. that way, if one instance goes down, or dies out, or makes nonsensical moderation decisions, you still have the others. it’s not a bug, it’s a feature!
Subscribe to all of them. It won’t be a problem.
It’s like if you followed #s of the same thing on Instagram, twitter, mastodon, bluesky, and whatever the equivalent of # is on Facebook, then a reddit sub with the same name. Different populations and user bases, but that’s a good thing.
There’s some degree of consolidation that happens, particularly when one community is on a bigger instance and would be better served by being hosted elsewhere. But there’s not really any barriers to using multiple. If you crosspost, you have better chances of it being seen anyway, and you’ll get access to any responses. If you’re wanting to comment, then the OP that crossposted is going to get your response no matter which ones it’s in.
Only drawback is that your comment in one won’t show in the others unless you copy/paste it. Which is perfectly valid if you want to, but most people would see your comment eventually anyway, so the conversation will still happen if it would have in the first place.
I kinda had issues adapting to it myself, but now I tend to prefer it when communities are spread out, because every instance has its own vibe usually. So you get different kinds of discussions than you would if there was only one community on one instance.
Some subjects end up needing a single community just to make it easier to find, but it’s pretty rare imo.
Some subjects end up needing a single community just to make it easier to find, but it’s pretty rare imo.
It’s quite common for hobbies and niche topics. There’s only one active !warhammer40k@lemmy.world and !gardening@lemmy.world
The biggest issue with merging communities is how are rules and moderation handled? There’s no consensus on what the solution to that is.
It is helpful to have posts from multiple communities delivered to you though, in a conjoined “Feed” - e.g. here is an example of a PieFed one called “Fediverse”. Personally I disagree with not showing the full name of the community in the feed like that, but when you click on an actual post you see at the top the entire thing including what instance it is located on (and for some, the little icons can differ as well, which I particularly see for communities located on Beehaw, which really helps to distinguish e.g. technology on Beehaw from technology on Lemmy.World, etc.).
U can always just subscriber to multiple
PieFed can do this, but Lemmy cannot. There is no official app support for PieFed yet, though testing is underway with Thunder so perhaps soon - for now check out PieFed.social in a web browser, and see the Topic areas, or the new user customizable and shareable Feeds. e.g., Arts & Crafts.
Hello, I’m not the owner of this post, but I made a PieFed account, based on what you said months ago. I find the extra features really nice! I just have one question: how do I know if I’m getting notifications from communities?
Account -> Activity Alerts will show you everything for which you’ll get a notification.
Go to the community, e.g. !mealtimevideos@lemmy.cafe, and just to the right of the name, you’ll see a bell icon. If that has a slash through it, which it should by default, then you will NOT receive notifications for that content. Toggle it to ON if you want them though.
I have greatly reduced my number of notifications from communities, since they can really pile up, especially for high-volume communities, and all the more so if you don’t check them multiple times a day. But for very rarely posted to communities, they can be a great way to ensure that you won’t miss something by other ways of reading, like your Subscribed or one of the Topic Feeds, which just recently were made to become user customizable and also shareable.
You can also sign up to receive notifications for Feeds too. Or a user. Or a post - most anything really. You can also toggle OFF notifications for a post or comment that people keep bothering you with, without having to delete it (this happened to me a couple times, once on Hexbear.net and again in lemmygrad.ml).
There are some quirks that PieFed still needs to fix, but overall I’m so happy with it! I’m glad you are enjoying it as well. Keep us all updated, in communities like this one, if you have other questions or feedback or anything - the Fediverse is getting active again all of a sudden, with all the enshittification happening on Reddit recently!:-)
Hey,
Welcome to Lemmy.
You can have a look at the list of active communities, there is a pinned post on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active can also help with finding the most active community on a topic. You can use the house icon on the right to set your home instance (lemm.ee in your case) to be redirected to it when you click on the links.
Well, that’s part of the decentralisation with its pros and cons. And that’s what i enjoy about the Verse (lemmy, mbin, piefed…)
- cons : multiple communities with the same name. People are dispersed.
- pro : no centralised decision for all the Verse. Several flavor.
You can chose them based on :
- the number of comments and posts.
- the moderation team by checking the modlog of their community. Do you agree with their value ? How is it managed ?
- people. Do you fell well there ? Or do you prefer there ? Only time can tell you :)
Another idea :
- Use an app that support multi-communities
- Create a Piefed account so you can benefit from multi-community : feed. Create a feed, and put those similar community in one place. On few cross-post, they also regroup comment in one place. It’s still a new software but i enjoy it a lot. :)
The feeds are also (now), in addition to being user customizable, shareable as well. So yes you can create your own, but also you may not have to, and instead just find one already made and maintained by someone else with similar preferences:-).
Consolidation sometimes happens, but sometimes doesn’t for certain reasons, such as a community being abandoned, or different visions for a similar topic.
Personally I would recommend picking the most popular community or the one that seems to appeal to you the most, and only posting in that one, while staying subscribed to the others (if they are active) to keep abreast of that content and be able to participate in the comments if you desire.
Yes and no, this topic comes up fairly frequently, and generally…nobody knows the best solution forward LMAO
piefed.social is a Lemmy “competitor” and is intended to be fully interoperable, but in practice it hasn’t matured yet and it’s interoperability with the Lemmy-verse is decent but has its quirks
But a big thing there is they have a multi sub type feature to combine comms like that
But some people also like the multiple comms, because they can have different viewpoints and culture.
Like lemmy.ml is a huge Tankie instance and their c/memes comms moderation skew towards censoring of comments and posts critical of Russia/China/NK and allows political memes
Where as c/meme on .world have banished most political memes directing them to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world instead
PieFed is just a Fediverse platform that aims to inter-op with Lemmy in much the same way that it aims to inter-op with any other Group-based platform (MBIN, PeerTube, NodeBB, Wordpress).
Lemmy’s “quirks” are the reason why your account won’t see Polls from MBIN, or channels from PeerTube, or posts from NodeBB, or backfilled content from Wordpress.
It’s not my intent to criticise Lemmy, but these are verifiable problems, whereas it doesn’t seem fair to criticise PieFed for problems that you can’t clearly remember.
It wasn’t my intent to criticize Piefed either, just trying to not over sell it to new users, I’d rather not them be thinking it’s a perfect drop-in replacement, and then have a sour taste in their mouth when they run into an issue
Completely unrelated, but you finally moved to lemmy.cafe? Congrats!
Lol I’m trying it out, davel un-instance-banned me after that meme went live and then banned me from each comm individually instead, so they could brigade my posts/comments
Soooo I decided to try out .cafe since they defed from the entire triad lolol
what quirks??
Mostly relating to small matters of polish. Like there’s a post preview feature, but that isn’t provided (yet) for comments.
One super annoying feature is when you receive a notification for something that you cannot actually see. Sometimes it relates to all the variety of auto-collapsing or auto-hiding of comments (therefore I turned all of that off), but e.g. you can receive a notification from someone that you have added to your block list if they reply to you, yet you will then be directed to a page displaying an error (when instead, that notification itself should have been removed by the PieFed backend).
Oh, and searching is crap (tbf, Reddit’s is too? However, Lemmy’s is fairly great, and about to get even better by separating out post titles I hear), plus while cross-posts are properly joined together, you cannot actually initiate a cross-post from PieFed.
PieFed is great for a new person to join the Fediverse, or for an old hand (who knows how to go to Lemmy in order to get around these limitations) to use as a daily driver, but it hasn’t reached feature parity yet with Lemmy.
OTOH, it has already surpassed Lemmy in so many ways, and Lemmy is not without its quirks as well. Chief among those might be how authoritarian it is - there is a modlog, but no modmail, and the account name of the mod who performed an action is actively hidden, replaced with just “mod”. Also the “instance blocking” feature is horribly misnamed, as it only acts as a community mute, whereas in contrast, PieFed has a true instance blocking feature that I use to block all users from lemmy.ml, regardless of what community or instance they are posting to. No need for an instance admin or defederation or anything - and you can reverse it anytime to boot! That one feature alone is what enticed me to join it, when it was much less developed - that feature is so helpful!
As are the hashtags, categories of communities, keyword filtering, and the list just goes on and on. Ahem, but yes nothing is perfect, and it does have quirks, some of which can be quite annoying. Fortunately the pace of development is extremely quick, and the dev very friendly and responsive.
Iirc it was mostly around notifications and federation delays
Tbf, federation delays occur for every instance - and in particular Lemmy.World is well known for how they cause them.
OTOH, the flagship instance PieFed.social does have quite a bit more of those than I’ve typically seen on any Lemmy instances. Here is a list of other PieFed instances readily available to join. They won’t have features be added as quickly, but might be more stable.
