Sync for Lemmy

Honestly, this is the kind of thing that should be hidden behind the UI. I’ve been on the internet long enough that I remember when we had to use a similar approach for addressing emails - where you essentially had to put routing information into your address field, rather than letting the servers figure it out.

Apollo, for instance, had a feature like autocomplete for /r links. It wasn’t perfect, but it helped.

The fragmentation of similar/identically oriented communities is a strength in some ways but at the same time presents a fragmented user experience. While I recognize the challenges on the server side if there’s not an aggregator, I think the client should be able to allow users to designate what would essentially be a multireddit consisting of all of the news.whatever communities, and offer further aggregation that the seven different posts linking to the same article into a single post. There’s a few different ways replies could be handled, but that’s the general idea.

We want to make sure we keep the strengths of federation while hiding things like duplication from users.

I've heard communities on Lemmy, magazines on kbin, and a lot of expats from Reddit like to call them subs.

"Commies" is a good one too. A good cutesy way to shorten it.

You can also use c/community.

Another commenter said:

The safer way to link communities is using the !_@__ notation, similar to email addresses. So for the support community it'd be !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml - which all instances know how to link to that.