On Bluesky a user can group a bunch of other users together under some topic and then offer the pack to others to help them get started with who to follow. You can auto-follow everyone in the pack. But afaik you cant choose whether to be included in a pack.
So… user-curated default subs. Probably less relevant on lemmy because communities aren’t as fine-grained as following individual users but I don’t think we even have instance-wide default subs, just the all feed.
A “people who joined your communities also joined these communities” mechanic would also be a good idea I think. Run dimensionality reduction over the data once a fortnight and just give people the results, that is, tell them which bubble they’re in.
it’d basically solve the issue of duplicate communities too
There’s no “issue” with duplicate communities. There’s an issue with Reddit users wanting there to be a single canonical home for a topic on a local-first distributed network of websites.
This isn’t Reddit. This isn’t like Reddit. It doesn’t operate like Reddit. It just kinda looks like Reddit. And maybe it shouldn’t, because it anchors people’s expectations and prevents them from embracing something truly new and different.
I’ve used lemmy exclusively for almost 1.5 years and I still think the duplicate communities thing could be better, lemmy is small so we might as well maximise the amount of content accessible.
I don’t want all of them to merge, I just think it should be easier for people to subscribe to all of the communities about similar topics
On Bluesky a user can group a bunch of other users together under some topic and then offer the pack to others to help them get started with who to follow. You can auto-follow everyone in the pack. But afaik you cant choose whether to be included in a pack.
So… user-curated default subs. Probably less relevant on lemmy because communities aren’t as fine-grained as following individual users but I don’t think we even have instance-wide default subs, just the all feed.
A “people who joined your communities also joined these communities” mechanic would also be a good idea I think. Run dimensionality reduction over the data once a fortnight and just give people the results, that is, tell them which bubble they’re in.
something like this:
https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps
but for lemmy would be nice
it’d basically solve the issue of duplicate communities too
There’s no “issue” with duplicate communities. There’s an issue with Reddit users wanting there to be a single canonical home for a topic on a local-first distributed network of websites.
This isn’t Reddit. This isn’t like Reddit. It doesn’t operate like Reddit. It just kinda looks like Reddit. And maybe it shouldn’t, because it anchors people’s expectations and prevents them from embracing something truly new and different.
I’ve used lemmy exclusively for almost 1.5 years and I still think the duplicate communities thing could be better, lemmy is small so we might as well maximise the amount of content accessible.
I don’t want all of them to merge, I just think it should be easier for people to subscribe to all of the communities about similar topics
Thanks!
Yeah i suggeated this a while ago on here for both lemmy and mastodon. Creating user or community groups would be big for new user onboarding.
You can choose to be removed from a pack, but it requires blocking the account that created the pack.
TYVM!