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The ability for communities to follow each other can definitely fix the biggest issues in Lemmy. Unfortunately it feels like there’s always a high priority issue getting in the way, whether it be patching security bugs or broken frontend bugs or the sudden need in better moderation tools lately. Growing pains and all that.
I’m hopeful that some form of community grouping will happen soon enough.
I definitely think some form of grouping is necessary for a better user experience. I would be content with user grouping, but I would love to see an option that is more automated for users, like the community following feature the author mentioned.
If they want to move r/rust to Lemmy, then just pick an instance and move, or start your own instance if none of the existing comms matches their needs, instead of all of these excuses.
Again, it’s really hard to get this through people’s head, but Lemmy is not a reddit clone, every instance is an independent forum each with their own different policies and moderation. If you don’t like the comm of one instance, you can easily move to a different comm on another instance with the same topic.
For different comm on the same topic to follow each other would honestly be a moderation nightmare, which is why I’m only supportive of user level community grouping (which would be more along the line of having multiple subscribed tabs. )
Can you elaborate on why a community following another would be a moderation nightmare? It would be up to the moderators of a specific community to follow the other communities, if it became a problem, they could simply unfollow.
Sure. It boils down to “should I have the ability to moderate posts on a followed comm”. In the event of a rule conflict (removal, pin thread, etc) , which mod team gets to make the decision about which set of rules to follow? If you say “it’s up to each mod team to decide.”, then that would really be no different than crossposting which already exists in Lemmy, and each comm will then have different content anyways.
Let me put it this way, using a reddit analogy: do you think it would be a useful feature for r/gaming to follow r/games and r/truegaming on a subreddit level to centralize all gaming content on reddit?
It would up to the moderators of the community doing the following to follow communities that abide by the same rules. If a post on the followed community broke a rule, I think it is obvious that the instance following them should have zero say over what is done. If they disagree with the moderation of another community, then they shouldn’t be following it.
I do think in many cases this would be useful on reddit as well. I assume r/truegaming was made to separate themselves from r/gaming, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t make since for r/gaming to follow r/games and vice versa, unless of course they have differing rules.
