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sixtynine ,

I only subscribe to the usually most popular community in a subject I’m interested in for this reason

Historical_General ,
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It’s stopping people from subbing to different communities which is probably a bad thing.

sixtynine ,

Probably, but until a solution is found it only mâles lemmy a mess and imo that’s worse

nieceandtows ,

Eh. Eventually one of them would win out. I posted the same link in [email protected] and [email protected]. The first one hasn’t had any comments where as the second one has more than a dozen comments. I know where I’ll post the next time.

hatter ,
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A lot of people seem to have forgotten (or maybe just weren’t around at the time) but there were tons of duplicate communities on reddit during the first years too. Over time their mods either agreed to close one and point everyone to the other or the less active ones faded away naturally.

One problematic scenario I can envision with that approach on Lemmy however is the mods of news@lemmysite1 and news@lemmysite2 agreeing to keep the first one alive, but then after a while lemmysite1 closes for whatever reason. So we’re left with news@lemmysite2 which is a ghost town. Probably not a big deal for a news community, but for something with a lot of info on a particular topic it’s not really ideal.

nieceandtows ,

Already happened for the Android community. Hopefully the new one gets bigger than the old one

Slowy ,
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The old one was revived, the admins of lemmy world don’t agree with parking community names

7Sea_Sailor ,

Keep in mind you can always block communities you’re not interested in to prevent them from appearing in any feed. I’ve already blocked plenty of communities to make the “All” post list digestable.

Blaze ,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

Could you please share the blocked part of the JSON you get with github.com/CMahaff/lasim ?

That could probably help new joiners.

7Sea_Sailor ,

Why would I? The list of communities which one wants to block is very personal / individual. My preferences what I don’t want to engage with is purely mine and cannot be transferred to all other users. So any user should make their own decisions what communities they want to block, instead of blindly copying someone elses and potentially missing out on content they would enjoy.

Blaze ,
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I agree with you to an extent, but I think there should still be a default list of blocked instances that we could provide to new joiners, so that they can at least have a base to avoid the experience OP had.

Of course that would be opt-in, but at least that would ease the adoption a bit.

amio ,

There are so many though. I'm trying to prune politics from my feed but people keep making new goddamn communities - a dozen isn't enough, apparently - and then crossposting everything everywhere anyway.

Delphia ,

You can also block users, which is super helpful with people that go on crossposting rampages.

Blaze ,
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I’m all in favor of several communities on the same topic as long as they offer different content

Having the same link or picture shared across several communities is just detrimental to the user experience.

Also, to avoid this, maybe we should have core communities for a specific topic (for instance unions), and then they can fork if there is a need (e.g. what happened with !android and !android

OP, as of now, I would just suggest to block communities that are too similar.

I only have one tech community as they seemed to all be the same anyway, I’ll reassess in a few weeks if I need to select the other one.

kresten ,

I just follow them all, and get all the content. Big W

hitmyspot ,

The problem with blocking a community is if you block the one that eventually takes off, you miss out. I am just accepting it for now and assume it will sort itself out.

Another option would be to upvote one and downvote the other, to help speed the process up.

Blaze ,
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz avatar

Your last point might be interesting, but imagine if someone else is doing the opposite, you guys would be evening out ha ha

magnor ,
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What is worse is that most of those duplicates come from the same poster who are not even cross posting…

kresten ,

Yeah, it feels so silly, especially with there being no karma

monobot ,

No karma, but they want to spread their ideas.

VentraSqwal ,

It needs to be in the mobile apps.

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