And then when posting you simply cross-post. Or stick to the most active one. By then you already know which it is. (Unless you post mindlessly on whatever comm you find, without even lurking a wee bit before doing it. Then you’re probably shitting Reddit and should stay there instead of shitting Lemmy.)
Crossposting gets pretty annoying for users who are also subscribed to all of them, though. Not that bad if it’s only 2 communities, but at 5 it gets pretty annoying.
I’m usually against crossposting between similar communities for niche topics as it splinters conversations. Instead of having 10 comments of 3 or 4 people taking to each other, you have 3 comments split in one community each.
Because you can’t control human beings? I’m not entirely sure what you mean. The entire reason the structure of ActivityPub and the Fediverse is what it is, is to have moderation not controlled by a single entity. Enforced consolidation is both impossible and would defeat the purpose.
Lemmy “communities” are structurally just modified user accounts. So it seems like it could be possible for one to “re-toot” a post similarly to how it can be done on Mastodon and elsewhere.
In this case the alternative is to post in the most active one. By then the user should already have a good grasp on which one it is, unless they post mindlessly.
That said I like cross-posting. Sometimes I see 3~4 people talking to each other in the different threads - but they’re approaching the subject from a different angle, because of the specificities of each comm.
Subscribe to all of them, duh. Problem solved.
And then when posting you simply cross-post. Or stick to the most active one. By then you already know which it is. (Unless you post mindlessly on whatever comm you find, without even lurking a wee bit before doing it. Then you’re probably shitting Reddit and should stay there instead of shitting Lemmy.)
Crossposting gets pretty annoying for users who are also subscribed to all of them, though. Not that bad if it’s only 2 communities, but at 5 it gets pretty annoying.
I’m usually against crossposting between similar communities for niche topics as it splinters conversations. Instead of having 10 comments of 3 or 4 people taking to each other, you have 3 comments split in one community each.
But I know it’s always a debated topic.
A cool feature would be to enable community mods to “retoot” posts from other communities, keeping the comments together.
But then why not just consolidate similar communities in the first place
Because you can’t control human beings? I’m not entirely sure what you mean. The entire reason the structure of ActivityPub and the Fediverse is what it is, is to have moderation not controlled by a single entity. Enforced consolidation is both impossible and would defeat the purpose.
Lemmy “communities” are structurally just modified user accounts. So it seems like it could be possible for one to “re-toot” a post similarly to how it can be done on Mastodon and elsewhere.
In this case the alternative is to post in the most active one. By then the user should already have a good grasp on which one it is, unless they post mindlessly.
That said I like cross-posting. Sometimes I see 3~4 people talking to each other in the different threads - but they’re approaching the subject from a different angle, because of the specificities of each comm.
If the communities have actual differences, that can be interesting indeed
Sometimes it’s just because none of them wants to consolidate, while they are actually identical