What we’re really lacking on the ui end is a way to see groups of identical communities that are on different federated platforms. Hence the idea of a dom-lemmy. The way it would work is lets say you search for a cat community called “cats”, there’s at least dozens of them out there already. Instead it would return the cats dom-lemmy, with the option to either drill down to a specific instance, or to merge all sub-lemmys called cats into a single view
Because if I subscribe to all of them, sometimes I will see 100 identical posts of the relevant news. And if I subscribe to just one, then I’m missing out on a lot of content.
You’re also missing out on a lot of content by not seeing the vast, vast majority of posts that never get noticed.
And you’re missing all of the posts posted on Facebook groups!
And all of the posts posted to Hacker News!
And all of the posts on…
Okay, but I see no reason to intentionally make that issue worse.
And I see no reason to turn spaces that can be used for meaningful activity into ones that can’t be.
I’m not saying those spaces can’t be used. Ideally each instance would end up with its own set of popular communities that have become the one true community. But it’s a much better user experience if every instance doesn’t have all of the communities from every other instance duplicated.