Which GW2 community is going to be the ONE?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/169206
Wouldn't it be better to merge than to compete?
Edit: Looks like the community on lemmy.ml is pretty much dead.
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I created !guildwars2@lemmy.wtf because !guildwars2@lemmy.ml does not have en active moderator and lemmy.ml itself is having a tough time dealing with the influx of new users, making the site very sluggish. It's getting better now, but the point of Lemmy (the Fediverse) is to spread out among multiple servers.
In the case of !guildwars2@kbin.social, which is different from Lemmy, I didn't realize it existed because a bug disabled federation between kbin and Lemmy. Were that to happen again, everyone on Lemmy would be cut off from !guildwars2@kbin.social.
kbin: This is a very early beta version, and a lot of features are currently broken or in active development, such as federation. Source...
!guildwars2@kbin.social does have 17 more subscribers, but !guildwars2@lemmy.wtf have twice the amount of comments ;)
Edit: Disclaimer: I am the maintainer (administrator) of lemmy.wtf
Yeah, syncing (federation) between lemmy instances and kbin.social has only just started to work (again). I made this list to document which "lemmy reachable" GW2 communities I could find and cross-posted it to all 3 communities.
I hope that at least one will survive, since I'm not intending to ever go back to reddit.
!guildwars2@lemmy.ml is pretty dead, but I don't see why !guildwars2@lemmy.wtf and !guildwars2@kbin.social couldn't co-exist. They are even on two different platforms.
Well, I'm currently subscribed to all 3 and since federation now works with kbin.social I can access their GW2 community just like it were on a native lemmy instance. Which is pretty cool.
I'm subscribed to the ml as well as kbin and have accounts in both but I can't seem to view posts from the ml there alongside the kbin ones. I can see that the ml is linked and I can subscribe to it, but how do I get the kbin to show a merger of both?
Also shouldn't we link the wtf instance too in the kbin?
Usually you don't need accounts on other instances to interact with their communities, e. g. my account is on lemmy.world, but I'm subscribed to 3 GW2 communities on 3 different instances one of which even being a different platform (kbin and not lemmy).
These communities now appear as if they were on my instance, but are in fact local copies which are synchronized/federated using the ActivityPub protocol.
Note that these communities are not merged, i .e. they still appear as separate communities, but there is a (pretty popular) feature request for this on GitHub.
Support for grouping communities / multi-communities #818
I don't know whether federation from lemmy to kbin is currently supported. I'm only using the other direction.
Thanks for the answer and the link ! That makes sense, then I'll wait and see if there is some traction/progress on the GitHub post!
I thought that going to https://www.lemmy.world/c/guildwars2@lemmy.wtf+guildwars2@lemmy.ml would work but that's the whole point of the request