There are tons of Rust communities spread on multiple instances. Is the expectation that users interested in rust should just subscribe to all of these? Is there a community which aggregates posts from all rust communities together into one?
It would be great to have a way for communities to voluntarily marge and consolidate once things settle down. I can already see a lot of fragmentation of topics that honestly are never going to be big enough to sustain multiple communities. The flip side of that is that rogue mods could abuse that to merge unrelated subreddits, I guess.
Otherwise, “multireddits” would be great, it was the main way I accessed the other site.
the Android communities seemed to have no problem merging, the content doesn’t move with them but keeping the old community locked seems good enough
There is a opened feature wish for this https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3071
However I think with all the other (maybe more important) stuff on the line I think it will take a while.
It could be cool to have a feature of “allied communities” (or: a community family), where popular posts in each would be seen in the others.
You have my vote!
This could maybe be achieved with bots crossposting from one community to another?
That’s a neat idea. But the way I imagined it, all the comments will show together as well. Unless it’s possible to do so with crossposts?
Unfortunately, that’s the expectation, yes. I think, someone is working on a “multireddit” kind of feature, though. Also, Lemmy is written in Rust, so you could totally contribute! 😜
some sort of “multireddit” is imo the best solution, one of the things I saw as a pro before joining the fediverse but it somehow seems to be dismissed inside is the fact that we should have options to join communities run by different people, if we don’t like how things are run we can just “go somewhere else”.
We should have a way to index and group similar communities to view and interact while they still remain individual. Otherwise we are just going to be reddit 2.0, unfortunately I already saw a “powermod” starting to hoard communities on lemmy.world, that’s the thing we should have left behind.
sigh That was bound to happen, right? Those powermods (especially people like awkwardtheturtle) are incredibly annoying. It’s not possible to mod so many communities at once. There aren’t many communities on my own instance that I host, but thinking about it, I might impose a hard limit of how many communities one person can create / moderate at one time. Maybe 5 or so.
I was also confused by this. Now I just join the one with the most members.
That’s a very reasonable approach. You can expect good posts on the smaller ones to get cross-posted anyway.
I think in general one community is supposed to win and become the big one, but it is one of the problems with mixing the fediverse and reddit. In some ways it needs to be like a topic so any server could create posts on that topic. But that makes it hard to introduce moderation.
I’d much prefer merging across instances to avoid one instance going down from bringing with it the community. It would also avoid the problem of people posting the same thing in multiple instances as well.
I think in general this problem exist on Reddit as well having multiple subreddits focused around the same stuff it’s just like you cannot have the exact same name twice. But I don’t know in how many game Dev subs I am on Reddit 😁
Speaking of which, what are all the rust communities in the fediverse?
Go to https://programming.dev/search and type “rust” into the communities dropdown
