Over the past few days, I’ve witnessed a remarkable surge in the number of communities on browse.feddit.de. What started with 2k communities quickly grew to 4k, and now it has reached an astonishing 8k. While this exponential growth signifies a thriving platform, it also brings forth challenges such as increased fragmentation and the emergence of echo chambers. To tackle these issues, I propose the implementation of a Cross-Instance Automatic Multireddit feature within Lemmy. This feature aims to consolidate posts from communities with similar topics across all federated instances into a centralized location. By doing so, we can mitigate community fragmentation, counter the formation of echo chambers, and ultimately foster stronger community engagement. I welcome any insights or recommendations regarding the optimal implementation of this feature to ensure its effectiveness and success.

  • Zerlyna@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 year ago

    I read on another post in a different community that some servers have neo-nazis running them? If that is the case, no thanks, I don’t want that.

    • confusedbonobo
      8·
      1 year ago

      It’s possible, it’s one of the downsides of being federated. The instances are moderated independendently, there is no central authority that enforces law or morals. It’s great to avoid things like what happened to Reddit, but stuff like that can and will show up. You can always block instances to avoid seeing them, if you want.

        • confusedbonobo
          2·
          1 year ago

          My bad, I meant community. You can block communities individually. For blocking instances as a user there’s an open issue on Lemmy’s GitHub, but I believe it’s not going to be implemented anytime soon.

      • AlataOrange@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        How do you block an instance as a user? I know how to block a community from an instance, and i know an instance owner can defederate another instance, but how do I as a user block a whole instance?

        • Elle@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          So far as I’m aware you currently can’t, you can only block users & communities. On Mastodon there’s an option to block domains (so, instances), but neither Lemmy nor Kbin have that functionality yet (and I dunno if they intend to).