Is it possible to automatically subscribe to all (federated) communities with the same name?
Example in the screenshot: I want to follow !astronomy, and I don’t really care whether the content is coming from from Lemmy.World, kbin.social and mander.xyz - I just want to see it all.
Obviously I could manually subscribe to them all, but is it possible to do so automatically? Ideally if a new similar community pops up on another instance, I wouldn’t miss it.
I read here that community grouping is a thing, so that instances with identical communities can work together. Is that a feature that could work towards this end?
Just pick the most popular one. The rest will slowly die.
The website UI shows active users, use that metric.
I heard you only see the subscriber count from the own instance, not all together. So there’s no accurate way to tell which one actually is the most popular.
Subscribers yes. Active users no, that’s total.
My instance has just over 100 users.
This is what I see:
just like reddit, you search for a subreddit and see all the ones that didnt take and find the one with the most content and subscribe
And that’s how we ended up with subs rulled by really terrible mods but no one ever bothered to help build up an alternative.
This right here is where centralization comes from. People refusing to try smaller communities, gravitating toward the biggest ones, and suddenly you end up beholden to whatever the admins of that place want, because the community is rooted there.
What we need are multi-reddit style systems where you can combine all smaller instances into one feed, instead of only picking the biggest.