I haven’t fully thought the idea through, but having combined communities - potentially just local for the users, or maybe somehow “shared” across instances.
For example, many instances have a politics community, so combine all three visually for the user alà multi-reddits, or something similar.
Possibly have instance level moderation. Instance A doesn’t like my post and can remove it from their community instance but instance B can still see it. Users from A can’t see it because their home instance doesn’t want to host that content, but B can still have it and interact
Came here to mention exactly this. It doesn’t sound too crazy, and would really help bring servers and communities to the where the users are and vice versa, with a bunch of extra benefits.
For example, right now [email protected] and [email protected] (and a bunch of others, but there are biggest I think) are basically the same thing, with many posts being posted to both simultaneously. If you subscribe to just one, you might miss half the community, but if you subscribe to both then you see duplicate posts in your feed, and the comments sections are separate causing less interactions and less fun.
I assume that both communities’ mod teams are aware of this issue, so would be happy to make the consolidate the communities into one if given the option, essentially mirroring each other. The nuances of how it all works - especially from a moderation perspective - is tricky but entirely possible to solve.
I haven’t fully thought the idea through, but having combined communities - potentially just local for the users, or maybe somehow “shared” across instances.
For example, many instances have a politics community, so combine all three visually for the user alà multi-reddits, or something similar.
Possibly have instance level moderation. Instance A doesn’t like my post and can remove it from their community instance but instance B can still see it. Users from A can’t see it because their home instance doesn’t want to host that content, but B can still have it and interact
Came here to mention exactly this. It doesn’t sound too crazy, and would really help bring servers and communities to the where the users are and vice versa, with a bunch of extra benefits.
For example, right now [email protected] and [email protected] (and a bunch of others, but there are biggest I think) are basically the same thing, with many posts being posted to both simultaneously. If you subscribe to just one, you might miss half the community, but if you subscribe to both then you see duplicate posts in your feed, and the comments sections are separate causing less interactions and less fun.
I assume that both communities’ mod teams are aware of this issue, so would be happy to make the consolidate the communities into one if given the option, essentially mirroring each other. The nuances of how it all works - especially from a moderation perspective - is tricky but entirely possible to solve.