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Nope, you don't have to subscribe to any of them actually. Look, I'm not subbed to either nsq and I'm good.
Just let it settle organically.
isn't activitypub stuff basically open?
so you could create or comission your own platform/ interface that can synthesize posts from all sorts of places and could even do things about duplicates?
thats the benefir of the open source data model and apis - someone can probabledevlop the features you want - eventually.
the current platforms probably all look a bit like pre existing forums / aggregators or social media . butthats just a starting pont, the future could be much weirder ways of compiling displaying and creating posts. and in theory it can all interoprate (within reason, and outwith federation blocks)
i probably have no idea what i'm talking about though . . . i've certainly not even queried a single activitypub api personally
have to
Why would you think that?
Pretty much, but i I think as the apps and front ends mature, we’ll be able to set up personal “multireddits.” I don’t mind signing up for the multiple communities because I understand why or is that way. However, do think the instances are forming more from simple load distribution and less from the types of deep seated shared interests that may have been predicted. The result is that there are more communities than expected that might benefit from being "collated", but that will be a pretty personal decision.
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can you subscribe to all of them? yes. do you have to? No. Lemmy is still new, overtime people will gravitate to particular ones and the others will wither away
"That's the way of the world" is usually said by Ayn Rand types who don't care about anyone else or know how to make things better.
Also, they paint the questioner as some nutter obsessed with finding every single byte about a topic.
And, no one is "stuck" on anything, we notice a defect and want to find a solution.
So think about this. Suppose you're making a community for, say, Ukrainians who have taken refuge in the USA.
What kind of person shrugs off their need to find each other and says "Suck it up buttercup". Or makes fun of them for asking.
Yes, there are inconvenient and irritating ways of handling the problem. Shrugging it off just tells me what kind of person you are, but it doesn't improve anything.
Now, what we could do - crazy, I know, hear me out - is think of a way to conglomerate all the content from diverse instances with different policies into one community where anyone can hear everyone else.
Two kinds of people in this world. The ones who start asking mocking questions, and those who put their heads together.
It's not like there is absolutely no solution. There are a lot of tools for finding Lemmy communities right now. You could go to one of these tools and search for Ukraine and get a list of communities.
Subscribing to all of them is effectively making a conglomerate of their content in your home feed. I don't see anything wrong with this approach. Other than that things will naturally work themselves out over time as people tend towards a single community.
You calling me Ayn Rand for saying that we should not hand over all power to a single corporation and then in the same breath also suggesting conglomerating all instances into one is... a bit absurd in my opinion. I am also going to choose to overlook you trying to link having the option to click 'subscribe' three times to the plight of Ukrainian refugees.
I do apologize if it seems I'm "mocking" anyone. Clearly that is not my intention - especially on 'No Stupid Questions'. Try not to become so defensive here, we're just having a conversation.
You asked and I shared my response.
Best of luck.
I think you've lost some perspective here. You asked a simple question, and people explained how it works.
Do you want to group all the communities together? Take it up with the W3C Social Web Working Group, who own the standard for ActivityPub. It's a group of people, make your concerns known and maybe they'll agree with you and change it. I don't think they will, because I don't agree that this is a problem that needs to be solved, but I'm not part of that group, so I guess that doesn't matter.
In the meantime, why are you reacting like this to the helpful people who answered your question?
If you want them all I guess.
Its a downside but also a power.
For example, if No Stupid Questions@kbin.social tomorrow decides to add a rule "No Post about cats" there are still others you can subscribe to that won't have that rule
Can we get some multicommunities that can include some of most active for a given community across whichever instance they're in that can be subscribed to at once?
Or does that feature exist already and I just don't know about it? There were multireddits before. Not quite the same use case, but similar concept.
You don't have to. You can. You can also only subscribe to one of them. Did you subscribe to every single subreddit covering a specific or non specific topic? Is it an issue that you get content from ~4 different communities / magazines of similar content? Why make it harder than it is?