Browsing new or Hot and seeing 15 posts in a row to /imaginarytanks, /imaginarycars, /imaginaryaviation, etc. got old the 2nd time I've seen it. I've had to resort to blocking the communities and bot that's just spamming for content.

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[–] Wreckronomicon@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (23 children)

Surely a lot of those subs can just be one single sub, imaginary vehicles would cover tanks, planes, boats, mechs etc...no need for so many

[–] Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (22 children)

I'm already trying to bulk up whatever I can into one subs because reddit imaginary subs have a sub for every damn niche thing lol:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryBestOf/wiki/networksublist/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryUnofficial/wiki/index/

I will move tanks sub and mecha sub into vehicles sub because they will be adding tags to the platform and unlike reddit you will be able to use multiple tags for one post so there won't be any need for dedicated subreddits because filtering should be easy enough, you're right. I think that I will leave aviation sub as it is though because it's deistinct enough to keep it as a separate sub. Thank for the feedback!

Edit: for example, not long ago I moved imaginary feels into more general sub imaginary emotions, so it's not like I'm not trying to fight those problems. It's just a bit confusing to make more general sublemmies because reddit had subreddit for each specific things and it's hard to shift to doing it in another way haha.

Edit2: yeah, I will need to rethink (again) how I will do things with with imaginary subs. I will stop posting temporarily on the ones that I'm not sure what will happen with them yet.

Edit3: Actually, maybe I will merge imaginary aviation and ships together but I'm not sure how well the platform will work if a community will have tens of tags.

Edit4: Another reason for why I didn't include everything under a more generalised sublemmies is that if a person subscribes to a community then it will show ALL the posts on it and not only the content that the person is interested it. I pitched an idea on github for advanced filtering options for tags, maybe I should also mention them that it would be good to have an option to subscribe to tags on communities so it doesn't show all the content from them. But that also sounds like something that will be needed to be done in the backend and will take a really long time to implement, ugh.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sublemmy isn't a thing. It's community or c/

Seriously, it will help you a lot to stop thinking like this is reddit, because it isn't, and trying to treat it like it is leads to this kind of thing.

All those niche subs? They didn't start out there, and weren't useful for the most part because even with the reddit size user base, there weren't enough active posters to keep them relevant.

Lemmy is smaller and more distributed. Currently, having ten similar but not exactly the same C/s on the same instance is just going to make discovery harder for each of them. And, it dilutes the content making each one seem unpopulated more than they otherwise would be.

I promise, I'm not bashing you with pedantry over terminology! It's about the already established culture within lemmy from before the current migration being respected, and shifting the way we think about how we interact with the fediverse.

[–] Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I dunno, "sublemmy" specifies that I'm talking about a community on lemmy which is a part of the fediverse so I find it kinda fitting.

Edit: also when I talk about lemmy community outside this platform it's just quicker to use one word "sublemmy" for it.

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