I have a question about communities. Are communities server-specific, for example, is the “Gaming” community on lemmy.ml different from the one on, say, beehaw.org and will I need to join both?

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
    174·
    2 years ago

    Its different from centralized services, and better. Rather than there being a single universal gaming community, people can make their own, with their own rules. If one gaming community has bad mods, or one server has bad admins, you can move to a different one.

    • testman@lemmy.ml
      5·
      2 years ago

      wait, what about if you have two communities where mods and admins are fine. Are there any options to federate those communities?

      all this time I was under impression that communities already federate

      • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
        72·
        2 years ago

        There is not a single, god community. Any instance can make /c/startrek, and people can subscribe to both.

        • testman@lemmy.ml
          3·
          2 years ago

          yep, that does make sense from security / moderation standpoint, as one “god community” would probably get Bad Apple’d ™ .
          but I would argue that “lol just manually opt-in to other communities” could be improved.
          I will go search through issues on GitHub to see which of my ideas were already proposed and which still need to be opened 👍

        • testman@lemmy.mlEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          Is it?
          On Mastodon I can take a look at “Federated timeline” and see the posts from the people that I have not followed. Because instances already federate by themselves (due to some other user on my instance following the user on other instance) but yes, I see your point

          • iod@lemmy.mlEnglish
            15·
            2 years ago

            Yep. Would be cool if we could subscribe to tags or topics so to speak. The 2 related gaming communities could then be grouped together in a federated view for the topic “Gaming”. At least for reading comments, not sure how posting would work.

            • spinoza_the_jedi@lemmy.mlEnglish
              3·
              2 years ago

              You know, I actually really like the idea of tags. I don’t currently have an issue with manually subscribing to similar communities on different servers (I’m often just browsing “all” to see all communities and all servers). But being able to subscribe to a tag would be cool. Then I could more easily identify and opt out of the communities I don’t like that match those tags.

      • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
        51·
        2 years ago

        It’s just how the internet used to work before centralized US tech giants took over all comms platforms. Instead of one site, there are many to choose from.