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Duplicate Pages Across Fediverse (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Calcharger@kbin.social to c/fediverse@kbin.social

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So I notice that KBIN and BEEHAW and LEMMY all have duplicate pages dedicated to the same content. Are we as a community going to have to decide which page will be the 'main' page, will we have to subscribe to each magazine for each instance, or will they consolidate eventually?

So like, theres a technology@beehaw, a technology@lemmy, and a tech for kbin. Does it make sense to spend time cultivating one, if another ends up getting more attention?

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[–] coupland@kbin.social 58 points 1 year ago (4 children)

100% agree. But we should never try to force things to "one." There should never be just one community for a topic. That's what Reddit is. "This is the videos subreddit, if you don't like it you don't have a choice."

Good communities will rise. Bad communities will fall. Some communities will attract users because they're big and have lots of members. Some communities will attract users because they're small and friendly. Choice is good. Fixating on there only being "one" of anything is bad.

[–] MrSebSin@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

This is the way.

[–] Hellsadvocate@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

This gets into another problem. You'll never reach the critical mass that reddit did by having almost everyone on the same page. You had experts from every field commenting on some articles. Loads of knowledge in one place. It would've been awesome to have something like that.

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fixating on there only being "one" of anything is bad.

That's the appeal. It the admins on one server are assholes, they don't have the power to ruin it for everyone.

[–] coupland@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It the admins on one server are assholes, they don't have the power to ruin it for everyone.

Exactly. One of the big issues with the r-site. There's only one community for any one topic and there are more users (and content) than they could possibly use. Ever tried posting to /r/ShowerThoughts? It's virtually impossible to come up with a topic that makes it through the filter. And it won't change because deleting 90% of submissions still leaves more than enough content to fill the page. It's easier for mods to just delete content en masse and ban a user than even engage in a conversation with them.

(I'm not picking on the mods on /r/ShowerThoughts, I've never interacted with them. I'm just using the sub as an example where the community is so big that an individual user is just an annoying gnat in the grand scheme of things).

[–] speck@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly. (Hopefully) quality will lead an instance to predominate organically