For example, are you in !linux@lemmy.ml, !linux@lemmy.world, AND !linux@programming.dev?
I’m in a few but as a general rule I try to avoid most of the ml instance communities because some of them can be a bit on the toxic side.
Generally I stick with the ones that are on the same server as my account i.e. !linux@lemmy.world on my lemmy.world account and !linux@programming.dev on my programming.dev account with exceptions to ones where I don’t have presence on that instance, or I have limited purpose of having an account there (i.e. my lemmy.blahaj.zone account only serves to moderate the Aroace and Agender communities), in which case I usually choose the one which has been most reliable. Part of the reason I did it this way was because in the early days when Lemmy.world had load issues and was being DDoSed federation would have a lot of issues,
it’s not a bug, it’s a feature, also, it’s not a bug, it’s a feature
Yep.
Looking forward to multi-community support on Lemmy.
It won’t fix the issue of comments being everywhere though. Take this post I made on !bitwarden@lemmy.ml. The same link has been crossposted to 7 other communities with many more comments. I wonder if in the future it’ll be possible to combine comments from various posts about a single link into a megapost of some sort.
Yeah, why wouldn’t I be?
It’s nice for viewing, but it can convolute posting. Which one do I post do? Do I cross post? Not a huge issue but still a bit annoying
Agreed. I don’t cross post. The community with the most membership or activity gets my posts, unless there’s a good reason to to support another community.
Cross posting to identical communities doesn’t improve the usability of Lemmy.
When I started on Lemmy after the Reddit exodus, I started by browsing by All, subscribing to communities that looked interesting, and blocking communities that I didn’t want to see. I figured I’d eventually move to browsing by Subscribed, but more than a year later and I still browse by All. Removing the communities I didn’t want to see, especially the overly prolific meme communities, and blocking the posting bots has made browsing New just fine.
So I guess I see duplicate communities assuming there are posts and I haven’t blocked them.
Yes. I’d really like linux@programming.dev to be the main one but for right now I’m subbed to all 3 I think
AskLemmy for me. I like occasionally answering questions and there isn’t enough posts on either for me.
Yes, and I’ve even cross-posted from one community to another trying to reach more help when I asked a question in the Linux help communities.
Yes with the exception that I block every single .ml community. When I post I generally choose the most popular one.
Curious. Why are you blocking .ml?
They remove any comments critical of their ideology so I rather not deal with them at all. ML stands for Marxism-Leninism incase you weren’t aware.
Some of their communities are also insanely aggressive compared to their .world counterparts, both in spirit and moderation. Really best to stay away from them, if at all possible.
Ah, I see. I happen to be a Marxist Leninist l, but if they censor people as you described then I’m not for that and it actually goes against socialism.
Because they’re tankies.
Yeah, all, and all.
Yes, but I only post to one at a time.
Yes and it’s annoying. That disperses even further the already small communities
Yep. There’s not really enough content in a lot of single Instance communities, but when you sign up for all of them it gets to a reasonable degree of activity.
Several, and thank you for making me aware of those in the OP, I was until now only subscribed to one of them.
