One of my largest pain points with Lemmy is that there are multiple active communities for the same topic, causing quite a few duplicate posts to show up in my feed that is difficult to filter. Hopefully there comes some kind of solution, outside of userbase, this is (what I believe) one of the larger issues compared to Reddit.
However, I still switched over to Lemmy for my primary ‘Reddit’-needs.
It helps to see communities as categories for an instance, each instance will have a different response to the same post based on the general instance vibe and culture. That’s also why picking a good instance to browse locally can be pretty useful.
I like that view, and it made me think of a possible “implementation”/“fix” as well:
Combine the post somehow (Based on attachment/title/something else?)
Filter/categorize the comments by instance that the comment was originally posted towards (Not by user, as that would be awful)
The largest issue here that I can see, how do we treat “new” comments to a post?
My annoyance is primarily with the fact that I see the same image 3x in a row, on a fairly regular basis. I might unsub from a few communities that share the same content.
There are many different workarounds, I personally don’t put much stock into sorting by “all” generally, sorting locally tends to be a better experience and has less repetition.
You can pseudo-curate by only subscribing to your most prefered instance of comm, but you won’t be able to see instances with allow-lists as the basis, rather than block-lists.
One of my largest pain points with Lemmy is that there are multiple active communities for the same topic, causing quite a few duplicate posts to show up in my feed that is difficult to filter. Hopefully there comes some kind of solution, outside of userbase, this is (what I believe) one of the larger issues compared to Reddit.
However, I still switched over to Lemmy for my primary ‘Reddit’-needs.
Lemmy needs a “all” option for communities with the same name so you can, for instance, browse across all the fediverse’s gaming communities.
Piefed is a Lemmy “competitor” that actually does some sort of “multi comm” combined view type of functionality
Piefed.social
It’s not mature yet, but last I heard interoperability was mostly ok, though had oddities
It helps to see communities as categories for an instance, each instance will have a different response to the same post based on the general instance vibe and culture. That’s also why picking a good instance to browse locally can be pretty useful.
I like that view, and it made me think of a possible “implementation”/“fix” as well:
The largest issue here that I can see, how do we treat “new” comments to a post?
My annoyance is primarily with the fact that I see the same image 3x in a row, on a fairly regular basis. I might unsub from a few communities that share the same content.
There are many different workarounds, I personally don’t put much stock into sorting by “all” generally, sorting locally tends to be a better experience and has less repetition.
Sounds like a good solution for people who are on larger instances, my instance does not host any communities sadly.
You can pseudo-curate by only subscribing to your most prefered instance of comm, but you won’t be able to see instances with allow-lists as the basis, rather than block-lists.