Created this thread to keep an eye on this feature as I believe it could have a huge impact on communities visibility

Edit: multicommunities / multimagazines would work similar to multireddits: they would be created by users for themselves. Users would be able to make them public if they want to, but the main use case would be private.

The idea is to be able to browse your own “memes feed” and then “news feed” without having all the content mixed in your general Subscription feed

  • Blaze (he/him)OPEnglish
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    2 months ago

    A bit late to the party, but my understanding of this feature would be similar to multireddits: defined by users for themselves. Users would be able to make them public if they want to, but the main use case would be private.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Yes and at the very least the “making them public” should be opt-in for communities as it can cause massive disruptions if these overly simplistic grouping gets popular.

      We have an especially bad example on our instance with the /c/memes community (and previously /c/technology) that is explicitly about Solarpunk memes, yet we get a constant barrage of very low effort and disruptive comments from non-subscribers. This community alone as a result causes most of the moderation necessary on our instance.

      Edit: and on a side note: these kind of shareable groupings make coordinated harassment of minority communities also much easier.

      • Blaze (he/him)OPEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Interesting, sorry to hear people don’t respect the rules you have for your communities.

        On the other hand, this is already happening without multicommunities, so would that even change that much if they were implemented?

        make coordinated harassment of minority communities also much easier

        Indeed, but it’s not like having a list of links of communities you want to harass is that harder to use compared to a multi community

        • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I think it would make it worse, and besides, this is a feature that encourages passive consumption, which I find very counterproductive for a small network of sites like Lemmy, which is already struggling to build strong communities with good active participation.

          • Blaze (he/him)OPEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            I think it would make it worse

            You might be right, maybe we should keep multi private at first

            this is a feature that encourages passive consumption

            I’m not so sure about this. In my case (and I know I’m not alone as I read other people doing the same in the issues discussions), I currently have a few alts depending on my mood

            • one for general topics
            • one for casual topics
            • one for tech topics
            • one for memes

            It’s a bit cumbersome to handle, so being able to have those different feeds in the same account would be nice. Not so sure about it impacting participation, as it seems that people using alts at the moment are regular posters