So you could subscribe communities to hashtags and have it displays toots and pictures from that hashtag in the Lemmy UI

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    4 months ago

    What’s wrong with duplicates? I love seeing stuff posted to multiple communities. I get to check out new communities and meet new people.

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        4 months ago

        Fragmentation is a myth. Look at the various different technology groups that are all thriving on different instances. Stop (inadvertantly) pushing for centralization!

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          Fragmentation exists and depends on how many users are interested to discuss a topic.

          Of course tech communities are thriving, they are the common denominators for most of the users on Lemmy.

          On the other hand, if we had !football@lemmy.world , and people also posting to !soccer@lemmy.world, splitting the tiny community there is, wouldn’t you want everyone to just go to one place to keep it alive, rather than have 50% of low activity on either side?

          That’s why I’m still posting to some LW communities even though I’m not a fan of having communities there.

          There are only so many people interested to talk about active communities, so I create the weekly post to discuss about active communities on !newcommunities@lemmy.world , because it’s more important to get visibility for communities than to avoid this community being on lemmy.world.

          I could have it on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca too, but that would mean asking everyone to comment twice, and realistically that’s not going to happen.

          Being able to move away from a community thanks to federation does not mean every community should be duplicated, that’s counterproductive.

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            4 months ago

            Different people do things differently. Why do you think towns have more than one pub or shop.

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              Towns also merge when population gets too low to stay sustainable separated