This is also the confusing part to me. If I want to see content for NFL, are we all fractured among hundreds of servers and there is no way to see all new posts on all of the verse at once?
Yeah that’s right. In practice though, over time you’d expect most people to eventually congregate on 1-2 big communities where there is the most quality content and moderation.
The upside is that no single server or moderator(s) own any community. Like on Reddit there can only be one r/NFL so if the mods decide to do something unpopular with the subreddit then everyone is just stuck with that.
Here someone can just create a new NFL community on a different server or start their own server with their own mod policies.
Really it’s not too different from how things were with reddit though. Often subreddits would fracture and people create a new subreddits dedicated to the same topic. There are a lot of very similar subreddits that for the same topic that co-exist
Think about how r/FreeFolk split from r/GameOfThrones because people got pissed at the moderators and then later it ended up becoming more popular than the initial subreddit
Lemmy is really sick. Honestly, I was pretty heartbroken yesterday about Apollo after 12 years on Reddit. Lemmy has been a breath of fresh air in what’s felt like a cave full of shit this week.
You would just have to subscribe to both so they are in your feed. I don’t know if there’s any way to merge them into one, but that shouldn’t be impossible. That doesn’t mean it’s a currently implemented feature though…
I meant merge like how multireddit works, where you combine multiple subs into a single distinct feed that doesn’t include all the subs you’re subbed to.
Oh no yeah that would be good! I guess someone should open an issue on GitHub, if there isn’t one already
I wouldn’t know how to implement it myself but I don’t think it would be too challenging
This is also the confusing part to me. If I want to see content for NFL, are we all fractured among hundreds of servers and there is no way to see all new posts on all of the verse at once?
Yeah that’s right. In practice though, over time you’d expect most people to eventually congregate on 1-2 big communities where there is the most quality content and moderation.
The upside is that no single server or moderator(s) own any community. Like on Reddit there can only be one r/NFL so if the mods decide to do something unpopular with the subreddit then everyone is just stuck with that.
Here someone can just create a new NFL community on a different server or start their own server with their own mod policies.
Really it’s not too different from how things were with reddit though. Often subreddits would fracture and people create a new subreddits dedicated to the same topic. There are a lot of very similar subreddits that for the same topic that co-exist
Think about how r/FreeFolk split from r/GameOfThrones because people got pissed at the moderators and then later it ended up becoming more popular than the initial subreddit
Lemmy is really sick. Honestly, I was pretty heartbroken yesterday about Apollo after 12 years on Reddit. Lemmy has been a breath of fresh air in what’s felt like a cave full of shit this week.
You would just have to subscribe to both so they are in your feed. I don’t know if there’s any way to merge them into one, but that shouldn’t be impossible. That doesn’t mean it’s a currently implemented feature though…
Merging them is not necessarily always a good idea neither. Different instances might have different rules and principles
I meant merge like how multireddit works, where you combine multiple subs into a single distinct feed that doesn’t include all the subs you’re subbed to.
Oh no yeah that would be good! I guess someone should open an issue on GitHub, if there isn’t one already I wouldn’t know how to implement it myself but I don’t think it would be too challenging