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  • Daily Reminder, Discussion is okay. Name caling, vitriol and toxic behaviour is against our community rules. Nothing is worth an argument. Discuss away but leave the aggression at the door.

    It goes without saying, but any user included in the post should not be harassed. Those found to be following this person will be banned from the community.

  • I feel like the best way to handle the situation with similar/same communities on different instances is to allow communities to automatically federated with other communities. That way subscribing to one community will show you its posts and all the posts to its linked communities.

    It would be especially helpful for these general purpose communities like Technology or News since I would imagine most communities are going to have one.

    If that happens then we wouldn't need to hunt down and follow every single instance of the same community. Let the mods handle it on their end to save the rest of us the effort.

  • Eh, it's a benefit and a drawback. For those of us that don't use browsers to access lemmy, crossposting is much harder for one thing. Then you've got bots and people that don't even know that crossposting exists at all.

    But, the ability to choose which communities you block and thus streamline your feed is too big a benefit to really be infuriating in natural general. Once there's a built in way to migrate block lists, it'll be even less infuriating.

    But yeah, you gotta block the bots that don't crosspost correctly, or they're utter spam machines. If users behave as bots, gotta block them too. It sucks, but it's miles better than trying to artificially limit communities.

  • You probably have to stick to one of the communities. That's what I do to avoid this kind of issues.

  • I do it, and honestly I wish there was a way to post a "Connect" Post or something that would appear to the three I post to

    • There is a cross post button. It adds a link under the post when opened to show other communities it has been cross posted to, but it doesn't solve the original problem.

      • Yeah that's what I use, but when I post to Dungeon and Dragon, and TTRPG if someone is part of those they will see two times my post :/ but if Communities linked to a post where like a tag on the post, the same post would be showed In both communities but it would stay the same post, but maybe that's approaching what Mastodon is and not Lemmy

  • I don't think this is all that dissimilar from how Reddit was though if you were subscribed to two world news subreddits and two technology subreddits. I think the key is picking out the more popular communities and only subscribing to those. Eventually the goal would be for the less popular communities to fizzle out in favor of bigger communities.

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