What are some ways you think discoverability might be improved across federated platforms?
What are some ways you think discoverability might be improved across federated platforms?
Discoverability in this context meaning the ability to more effectively find public communities/people of interest. Alongside improving this however, respecting people's decisions on whether and how they may be found, if at all.
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I think the idea of having instances own communities is fundamentally flawed. Discoverability is one of many ways that fucks things up.
Yeah. This is the biggest one I think. Theoretically a community can be shared by all instances and each instance decide if they want to receive this post and this comment from that community. This way, there could be a community that have totally different meaning in two different instances, but it's still one name so it's discoverable.
Although it seems like it'll be too granular. But it'll be funny seeing "This post is banned in 69 instances".
Lemmy has this feature request, so did kbin and subsequently mbin. I think @Ategon@programming.dev implemented something similar with his own fork (?). But yes, multi-community / community grouping / publishing groups / groups / whatever are sorely needed. Having a "technology" community on multiple instances that one needs to first find and then subscribe to is a little tedious and doesn't help discoverability.