Good points, but hang on, I have an issue with the clustering. Let’s say I want to join something about “dice games”.
First challenge is to find out, what such communities could even be named. My search-fu is weak so I might only find one such community, but there are others, bigger ones. How could I find them?
Next, let’s say I find five communities on four instances. Wow, yay! Intuitively I would definitely want to join the biggest but I will also join the others so as not to miss anything. If everyone does this, it will never crystallise into one primary source.
That may be fine for reading, but what about posting? I don’t want to bother posting on all the damn sites.
In total, I really understand what Fediverse is aiming for here, but Reddit looked so much simpler. Like Linux (no coincidence I’m sure), Fediverse is a great idea with great features, but it’s juuust shy of being mainstream enough for the average Joe. So ultimately, the best community for my dice games… is Reddit?
Deceptichum@kbin.social 11 months ago
Eh it’s an annoyance and one Kbin/lemmy devs are working on improving. Kbin already now groups cross posts across instances, and there’s still more progress being made on fixing this issue.
Ideally it shouldn’t matter where you are, at current it does.
livus@kbin.social 11 months ago
@Deceptichum I guess it would if it's super important to you to be able to discuss any given post with the biggest possible number of people (which kbin's crosspost feature already fixes, because it shows you how many comments are on an article's crossposts and links you to them).
But I quite like some of the smaller discussion communities. Worrying about there bering several on a topic isn't much different to worrying about how reddit had several subs on the same topics.
Things are developing their own flavour already. It has to happen organically.
HubertManne@kbin.social 11 months ago
I do love the cross post thing. it was a great idea.