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Redundant communities across instances (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by bfr0@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
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As a new reddit exile, I may be misunderstanding this.

In theory something like a !gaming community could crop up on multiple large instances, especially during the mass exodus while instances are getting hammered with spikes in volume.

If that's the case, we'll have fragmented communities across instances. Is there any way besides subscribing to each of them to combine them into a sort of multi-reddit type aggregation? Or is this considered a temporary (albeit important to adoption) problem during the crazy stages?

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[โ€“] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think a good solution would be to split popular communities across instances to balance the load on the servers. Also you could have stubs that say the community is actually located at xyz etc.

[โ€“] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Also in the description of each community they could update it to add links to the other communities on other instances so that people can subscribe to them as well. Though that'll make more work for mods to update it, and for users to actually connect to new ones as they pop up.