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Link communities across multiple instances? (feddit.org)

submitted 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am not very familiar with the technical workings of lemmy, so if this is a really shitty idea, just tell me.

I joined lemmy a week ago and it kind of bothered me that there is not THE me_irl or not THE programming_humor. Would it be possible to add the functionality to link communities together. In my naive opinion, this would solve my "problem" and add the opportunity to not only federate reddit, but to also federate single communities on lemmy.

What would be the pros and cons of such an approach? Looking forward for your comments!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

There have been discussions about this in the Lemmy Github repo issues. Latest info AFAIK is that this feature is waiting for some volunteer to implement it. Current developers said that they are busy with other features.

But yes, this is something that I would also like to see very much. Allowing same-topic communities to connect would be good for whole Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

there is some interesting discussion of the problem and possible solutions (including links to github issues) in this blog post: https://popcar.bearblog.dev/lemmy-needs-to-fix-its-community-separation-problem/

[–] Kichae 5 points 5 hours ago

Ugh. The idea that there are two forums with the same name on different websites focused on similar topics isn't a "community separation problem". The "community" is not separated. There are just separate communities discussing similar things.