Communities on different instances about the same topic should have the option to essentially federate so a post on one appears on all of them and opening any of them shows you the comments from all of them. This way when lemmy.world is down its not a big deal because posting to any news community federates to all of the communities instead of barely having people see your post. Federation could be decided by the community mods and the comments can have a little “/c/communityname@instance.name” on it so you know which community the comment was originally posted on.

  • NickwithaC@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    This was the idea behind MultiReddits if I’m not mistaken. In which case a simple operator like:

    Fediverse@lemmy.world+Fediverse@lemmy.ml

    Could get baked into the Lemmy core to allow this to work.

    • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      I asked the Lemmy devs about multi-reddits type subscribing and they said that it’s on their list but they need help developing it because they have a huge list. I like the multiereddits way because then the user decides and there isn’t extra mods (managers) sprinkled in.

      • clgoh@lemmy.caEnglish
        22·
        1 year ago

        That’s the way I think it should work. We could merge different communities with the same topic, or similar topics. Like “Music” from different instances, as well the communities of bands you like.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      That’s still just two separate communities. Like a filter. That’s fine. That’s not what OP is suggesting though. What OP is suggesting is much more extreme.