• Blaze@discuss.online
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    9 months ago

    When you go to /c/books on your server, you don’t see an agglomeration of all /c/books on all servers of the fediverse. You only see that server’s /c/books, if it even has one.

    What prevents from visiting /c/books@anotherserver?

    Genuinely asking, because this is one of the core concepts of Lemmy and federation

    • Luden [comrade/them]@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      I’ll say this is really clunky to do and often means being redirected to that instances site where you are no longer logged in. Mobile apps mostly solve this themselves, but its sometimes a pain on desktop. I’d like the ability to somehow group similar communities, but I’m fine if its like Multireddits or playlists on the user end.

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      9 months ago

      I already posted to anotherserver/c/books and no one ever saw it.

      Posting anywhere but biggestinstance/c/biggestcommunity is functionally the same as not posting at all.

      And of course, the owners of biggestinstance/c/biggestcommunity believe in everything you don’t believe in and they really don’t like you in particular.

      Welcome to new reddit, same as old reddit

      • Blaze@discuss.online
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        9 months ago

        I already posted to anotherserver/c/books and no one ever saw it.

        Did you promote that community on !newcommunities@lemmy.world and other promotion communities? Did you actively post on your new community, to attract users to your new one?

        I’m going to take two examples I personally had

        I guess that shows that community takeover is possible, and does not need additional tools, just some time and dedication.