I've done it with the communities I've made. I agree it should be done more often, though
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
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Yep, such links like between fuck cars and yimby are what I meant.
Though a link with Bang-Syntax might be easier, otherwise that results in a bit of instance hopping and switching to browser in some mobile apps.
Ah, I didn't know about the bang syntax when I had done the linking. Changed it now!
I do it with all my communities.
The community I contribute to the most is the only one. The other same-name communities are dead (or only a couple old posts) and I posted a link to the one I use in the posts. Also, I browse on mobile most of the time, so I don’t see sidebars.
I didn’t mean communities with the same name on different instances, but active communities with related topics.
A bit of a stretch would be music genres linking to each other, open source games linking each other etc.
But more specifically closely related communities !ich_iel@feddit.de and !hessisch_iel@feddit.de (dialect variation of the former) or !me_irl@lemmy.ml, !ich_iel@feddit.de, !ik_ihe@feddit.nl, !eu_nvr@lemmy.eco.br and other translations linking each other. Or !minetest@lemmy.ml and !mineclone2@lemmy.world (game/mod of the former) linking each other.
Example screenshot with sidebar of r/meirl, which isn’t r/me_irl:
Should be done more for sure. It's also the kind of self-organising that will be necessary to keep lemmy/kbin active and healthy. Users should maybe not be so shy about suggesting such links.