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This is a great initiative. Based on the areas listed in the post, it seems like the focus is primarily targeted towards end users instead of administrators or moderators. If that's the intent, making the docs more "accessible" (ie more links to the docs, more mentions of the docs on places like join-lemmy.org) may be helpful, especially if the docs are mentioned as more than just technical documentation (eg FAQs, More Info, Learn More, etc.).
One thing that is still a little unclear to me is how communities with the same name are handled. For example, if there is a community called
popular_community
created on three different Lemmy instances, will a Lemmy user subscribing to one instance'spopular_community
automatically subscribe the Lemmy user to the other two instances'popular_community
(assuming the instances are federated with each other, the user hasn't blocked the other instances, etc.)? What if a Mastodon user (or another non-Lemmy Fediverse user) does that instead of a Lemmy user? If someone tags/mentions/etc. one of instance'spopular_community
, will the tag/mention/etc. appear on the community within the other instances? What if a Lemmy user subscribes to more than onepopular_community
and gets banned from one? Is there a way to prevent multiple communities with the same name across Lemmy instances or to make one instance's community systemically recognized as the "official" community (short of reaching out to each community's moderators/administrators to manually link to the single "official" community)? What happens if one instance's administrator shuts down or removes it's instance'spopular_community
? How do any of these answers change depending on which Lemmy instance the Lemmy user registers on (if any change at all)?Communities work in the same way as users, so like you can have
@[email protected]
and@[email protected]
which are completely independent from each other, its the same way with[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
and[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
. The software platform doesnt make any difference. The reason for this is that the ID of a federated user or community is not just the name, but thename@instance
.It also makes sense to include more documentation links on the website.
That aligns with how I thought communities should work, but I also thought I've seen behavior on the web app/website that differed from that at some point. Maybe I'm misremembering or the situation was slightly different and didn't pay close enough attention to realize what was happening (eg a post in
[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
that mentions[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
or just searching forpopular_community
and seeing posts from multiple instances'popular_community
).Hopefully the feedback in this thread is helpful! It seems like there are some good recommendations.
Sure if you only search
popular_community
then the results will include anything that matches the string. And yes its definitely helpful.