Lemmy needs a middle logical layer to really take off. If a local server moderats it as such, the default view for say /c/technology shouldn't be slit across a dozen instances. Instead it should be merged into one view.

Without it you have a bunch of largely stagnant communities.

[–] jimbo@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What would be better is if similar Lemmy communities could, by mutual agreement, "federate" so that all posts show up regardless of which community someone is viewing. So if you were looking at lemmy.world/c/technology, you'd also see posts lemmy.ml/c/technology if they "federated" (probably a better term to use to avoid confusion with the fediverse in general, but that's the one that came to mind).

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago

It might be a good feature/option of a frontend to automatically aggregate same-name communities across federated servers. Bogus actors would either be downvoted or defederated off the feed.

[–] Stahlreck@feddit.ch 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy pretty much just needs tags. Like you can mark your different "technology" communities with the tag "technology" and a user can subscribe to this tag to view all posts from whatever communities have this tag (and they don't have to call themselves strictly just "technology")

Something like that I would imagine so no direct interaction between communities required.

[–] Iusedtobeanadventurer@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's this plus uptime. Both come down to usability. Nobody wants to use a product that is confusing or unreliable.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago

Only Lemmy.world really has issues with uptime

[–] PurpleTentacle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Lemmy excels at both those things.