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How would you feel about Lemmy being able to pull in hashtags from the Fediverse? (lazysoci.al)

submitted 3 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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So you could subscribe communities to hashtags and have it displays toots and pictures from that hashtag in the Lemmy UI

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[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What's wrong with duplicates? I love seeing stuff posted to multiple communities. I get to check out new communities and meet new people.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It leads to discussion fragmentation, especially when the 2 communities are the same, but still split, like !android@lemdro.id and !android@lemmy.world

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fragmentation is a myth. Look at the various different technology groups that are all thriving on different instances. Stop (inadvertantly) pushing for centralization!

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fragmentation exists and depends on how many users are interested to discuss a topic.

Of course tech communities are thriving, they are the common denominators for most of the users on Lemmy.

On the other hand, if we had !football@lemmy.world , and people also posting to !soccer@lemmy.world, splitting the tiny community there is, wouldn't you want everyone to just go to one place to keep it alive, rather than have 50% of low activity on either side?

That's why I'm still posting to some LW communities even though I'm not a fan of having communities there.

There are only so many people interested to talk about active communities, so I create the weekly post to discuss about active communities on !newcommunities@lemmy.world , because it's more important to get visibility for communities than to avoid this community being on lemmy.world.

I could have it on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca too, but that would mean asking everyone to comment twice, and realistically that's not going to happen.

Being able to move away from a community thanks to federation does not mean every community should be duplicated, that's counterproductive.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Different people do things differently. Why do you think towns have more than one pub or shop.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Towns also merge when population gets too low to stay sustainable separated