this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2025
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There's also the argument that people should get used to the idea of not being force fed from one source/community/etc. Redundancy also has its perks.
Lemmy's greatest strength is also its greatest weakness imo. The decentralized nature makes it much less intuitive to navigate and use when you're new because it just works differently to what people are used to and commonly expect.
Having multiple communities isn't a problem if they aren't dead imo. The problem is a user base that doesn't have a native way to easily access everything on the fediverse (or even Lemmy) from whatever instance they register on. That leaves us with users who simply don't know any better when they look for communities with a local search and can't find them.
I think we need to work on retraining people to search using tools like lemmyverse, or find a way to build its functionality into the default Lemmy search. Consolidated communities only help if people are able to find them reliably and many of the users are brand new and struggle with the transition.
Definitely agree. By the way, well done with !pokemonTCGM@crazypeople.online, it's a great community!
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That's also what I try to do with the pinned post on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
Posts like that are a great resource. Thanks for all the time and energy you put into promoting this place. It's certainly appreciated.
Part of the problem is we're fighting an uphill battle. After decades of preaching to people on the internet to use the search we've given them one that often can't actually find things for them without some fiddling. New and smaller instances are particularly prone to this. If the goal is being interconnected as a feature we need better ways to make that connection user friendly and automatic.
Happy to help. And yes, definitely agree.
In a perfect world where traffic and hosting costs didn't matter it would be handy to integrate the lemmyverse results into lemmy instances when a local user searches for something. With an option to toggle it on/off from the admin panel you'd be able to cover federated and private instances that wanted local only search. I'm sure someone more technical than me could figure it out pretty easily, but that's a lot of traffic to absorb for lemmyverse.net.
While I mostly agree, the duplication of shared links is definitely a problem that is frustrating once you have a setup you like and follow a few similar communities.
Yes, having a dead community isn't that big of an issue per se. The worse case is probably when there are two similar communities with the same links posted on both sides.
Definitely the biggest issue that I face. Managable, but frustrating at times.