Over the past few days, I’ve witnessed a remarkable surge in the number of communities on browse.feddit.de. What started with 2k communities quickly grew to 4k, and now it has reached an astonishing 8k. While this exponential growth signifies a thriving platform, it also brings forth challenges such as increased fragmentation and the emergence of echo chambers. To tackle these issues, I propose the implementation of a Cross-Instance Automatic Multireddit feature within Lemmy. This feature aims to consolidate posts from communities with similar topics across all federated instances into a centralized location. By doing so, we can mitigate community fragmentation, counter the formation of echo chambers, and ultimately foster stronger community engagement. I welcome any insights or recommendations regarding the optimal implementation of this feature to ensure its effectiveness and success.
I’m not talking about communities having tags for posts, I’m suggesting communities could apply a hashtag to the community itself so that it would be easy to combine view of many communities with the same tag.
To use a Reddit example, imagine if r/gaming, r/games, and r/patientgamers all had “#videogames” applied to them. Then if you tried to view a multi based on which subreddits had #videogames, all three would show up in that multi.