As a new reddit exile, I may be misunderstanding this.
In theory something like a !gaming community could crop up on multiple large instances, especially during the mass exodus while instances are getting hammered with spikes in volume.
If that’s the case, we’ll have fragmented communities across instances. Is there any way besides subscribing to each of them to combine them into a sort of multi-reddit type aggregation? Or is this considered a temporary (albeit important to adoption) problem during the crazy stages?
what are you thinking?
as of now we have the name and the instance its on. so you at least know its not your instance, most instances seem general, which I admit is confusing, I went for a topical server more like the old forums, I feel like this is going to be a better way to manage things since most people often spend years in thier topic areas and often want tighter and faster comms with that circle while they are engaged.
personally id like to see more portability of accounts and def better UI so people understand what they are dealing with.
Oh, good point. I’d been browsing local more here & other Lemmy instances, so forgot it does indicate the origin instance.
Generally I agree with the inclination towards more focused/topical servers, so then the sub-communities almost naturally set themselves apart as they focus on more specifics, e.g. Tech instance and sub-communities for specific types of hardware, software, etc. That said, I’d also appreciate better account portability, and UI.
General instances are kind of an odd thing for federated sites tbh, but they make sense as a sort of reception area/lobby for the rest of the space. Come to think of it, an interesting (if impractical) idea that may work better for this style (forum/link aggregator) may be the possibility of remote community creation, e.g. person from lemmy.world being able to create a community in a hypothetical tech.lemmy. Although that would necessitate a whole host of improved permissions to ensure folks can’t mess with each other.
this kind of delegation is done is SharePoint server with teams so I don’t see why it could not be implemented, but yes complexity!
I suspect the fediverse devs are going to get a bunch of PRs soon.