Why haven't multi-communities been added to Lemmy?
A multi-community would be all communities with a certain name, across all instances. It would prevent powermods from being a problem on Lemmy. i think it should be notated with m/<insert name here>, just like communities but with m instead of c.
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I don't think it should be done by a specific name, it should be user defined, I should be able to add the communities together which I deem that they do belong together for some reason.
I think the only reason is that they're swamped with bug reports and more important feature requests so they didn't have the time to implement it yet.
See:
and probably many more. The devs are looking at the different approaches and commenting there, so you should be able to get a good picture how it's going by reading the comments there.
This.
People are used to a single handle mapping to a single community, and I get that they want that to still be true, but it isn't here. It just isn't. Having a communities auto-group in any way is asking for a bad time for all involved.
First of all, people generally are not considering the contexts that those communities are situated in. My go-to example here is politics communities. r/politics is, very frustratingly, about American politics, but that isn't going to be universally true here for communities named politics. You should not assume that an Australian based server, a Canadian based server, a UK based server, an Indian based, etc. will reserve that name to deal with, well, foreign politics. And having them automatically lumped together will functionally destroy the communities on instances focused on smaller countries.
In top of that, it's wide open door for troll instances.
If people want lists of communities, that's fine. That's great even. I'd love to lump together some sports communities so that when I'm in the mood for that, I can find them all in one place. It'd be cool to be able to have them optionally not show up in Subscribed, too. But auto-grouping is one of those features that is actively bad for smaller communities, and which people really only think they want. It's more of a sign that people aren't opening their mind to this new space and paradigm they find themselves in than an actually useful feature.
Or you have reddit's world politics, which is filled with anime titties.
As I say, it's an open door for trolls. Anime titties, holocaust denial, endless pictures of Rush Limbaugh's face, you name it, with enough effort it can flood any auto-grouped community tag.