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Communities on different instances about the same topic should have the option to essentially federate so a post on one appears on all of them and opening any of them shows you the comments from all of them. This way when lemmy.world is down its not a big deal because posting to any news community federates to all of the communities instead of barely having people see your post. Federation could be decided by the community mods and the comments can have a little “/c/communityname@instance.name” on it so you know which community the comment was originally posted on.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You can already view a community from any instance. Just subscribe to communities you want. Support more and smaller instances of you want more decentralization. Lemmy.world going down taking out so many communities with it is a problem of too much being hosted there. Everything you're describing basically already exists. It would be very silly to force communities to merge with other ones. Just because they have the same name doesn't mean they have the same rules.

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[–] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I love the idea! In the meantime, I think mods of similar communities should talk to each other and decide to merge their communities into one, perhaps on a server that's not lemmy.world. I don't remember which one, but I've seen that happening

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think it was !android@lemmy.world that did that and some members of the community threw a fit.

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[–] gabe@literature.cafe 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm hopeful niche interest communities migrate over to smaller instances, I've seen some niche interest instances pop up slowly but surely thankfully.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I want all like communities to have their own instances, but that’s probably just my organizational brain wanting to group things.

[–] gabe@literature.cafe 1 points 2 years ago

I agree. Mine is mainly for books and writing so I hope more people with those interests (and maybe those communities) will set up shop over here. Idk beyond that, I guess reaching out and offering them a space?

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