On Bluesky a user can group a bunch of other users together under some topic and then offer the pack to others to help them get started with who to follow. You can auto-follow everyone in the pack. But afaik you cant choose whether to be included in a pack.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

So... user-curated default subs. Probably less relevant on lemmy because communities aren't as fine-grained as following individual users but I don't think we even have instance-wide default subs, just the all feed.

A "people who joined your communities also joined these communities" mechanic would also be a good idea I think. Run dimensionality reduction over the data once a fortnight and just give people the results, that is, tell them which bubble they're in.

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

something like this:
https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps
but for lemmy would be nice

it'd basically solve the issue of duplicate communities too

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it’d basically solve the issue of duplicate communities too

There's no "issue" with duplicate communities. There's an issue with Reddit users wanting there to be a single canonical home for a topic on a local-first distributed network of websites.

This isn't Reddit. This isn't like Reddit. It doesn't operate like Reddit. It just kinda looks like Reddit. And maybe it shouldn't, because it anchors people's expectations and prevents them from embracing something truly new and different.

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

I've used lemmy exclusively for almost 1.5 years and I still think the duplicate communities thing could be better, lemmy is small so we might as well maximise the amount of content accessible.

I don't want all of them to merge, I just think it should be easier for people to subscribe to all of the communities about similar topics

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Thanks!

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah i suggeated this a while ago on here for both lemmy and mastodon. Creating user or community groups would be big for new user onboarding.

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

You can choose to be removed from a pack, but it requires blocking the account that created the pack.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

TYVM!

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

AfaIk, you will be following some accounts in your field of interest by default, so that your timeline isn't empty at the start.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks!