I notice that when I search for communities I see the same community has been created on multiple instances. I could subscribe to all of them but I’d much rather it be one larger community. Does any else see this as an issue or find this frustrating? If so, have you done anything that’s made it easier to deal with or have any ideas of how it could be improved in the future?

Personally, I’d love to see all the content merged and have the instance tagged on the post, similar to using flair on Reddit.

I think we’d see better adoption of the fediverse and Lemmy if this could be fixed because the largest complaint I see is the lack of content. There’s a lot of content here, it’s just spread across multiple instances. Just my two cents though…

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[–] aeki 1 points 1 year ago

I thought it was a problem, but instances can fail, and it's good to keep things distributed. I don't want to centralize topics to specific instances.

On the other hand, we do need to make it easier to aggregate content from different related federated communities, for example with community meta tags that can be made accessible through curated lists. The users could link to specific listings and subscribe to them.

I think there are multiple ideas around this that are more informed than mine, but I'm on mobile and unwilling to look it up right now.