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Why can't magazines/communities aggregate content from other instances? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by timbervale@kbin.social to c/fediverse@kbin.social

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When I look at https://lemmy.ml/c/startrek vs https://kbin.social/m/startrek I see two entirely different lists of posts. Why? It's the same topic, just on different instances. How can we have communities about topics without having them siloed into their own instance-based communities? Is this just related to that 0.18 issue with Lemmy/kbin not talking nicely, or is this how the Fediverse is?

Is it (at least theoretically) possible for me to post an article on https://kbin.social/m/startrek and have it automatically show up on https://lemmy.ml/c/startrek, or are they always going to be two separate communities?

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[–] snooggums@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want to narrow down the topics I'm looking for without needing to search and subscribe to each instance. So instead of going from All to Subscribed, which have a lot of non-startrek content, I want to view all of the startrek subs across all federated instances even if I haven't subscribed.

This sounds like what the OP is asking about, although I would actually love to just pick some strings of text and save it as a subgroup. If I don't like one or two of them I can remove them from the list, but while browsing my startrek subgroup I get to see content from newly created startrek magazines without needing to regularly search and add them manually.

That would result in seeing content across instances at the same type for the same topic without needing to keep up with new instances. And to be honest, I don't care about instance specific rules. I just want to browse and interact in a respectful way and if some instance has silly rules they can let me know I broke a silly rule and I'll bow out of theirs.

[–] timbervale@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kind of, but not exactly. I'm asking for a solution where kbin.social and lemmy.world and startrek.website all post to the exact same community, but in a way that doesn't require me to be subject to the whims of the mods of any specific instance.

If a mod on !startrek@startrek.website (currently the largest Star Trek community instance) were to go on a power trip and ban anybody who mentioned Star Trek: Discovery, I wouldn't want to be part of that community, anymore. Most people wouldn't care, though, and just wouldn't post about Star Trek: Discovery. So, fine, I go subscribe to another instance where they allow Star Trek: Discovery, but if !startrek@startrek.website has 20 million subscribers, and the next biggest instance only has 40 thousand, the experience of using that next biggest instance is going to suck in comparison. That's the problem I'm trying to find a solution to: a situation whereby a specific instance doesn't control the content for everybody, but instead they only control the content for their specific instance.