Right now there are similarely named communities across the fediverse.

“fediverse@xxx”, “Linux@xxx”, “asklemmy”, “askkbin”…etc…

I’m on kbin and I’m having a hard time figuring out how to use the fediverse more productively, by reaching the largest amount of people for asking questions, solving problems, simply put: to engage… like I used to do on Reddit?

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    As @flloxlbox said, it will either happen organically or users will decide to merge communities, like the Android community did. It’s the way federation works, it’s not something that can be forced on people.

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      I would like to see some kind of “canonicalization” feature in Lemmy to support this, similar to CNAME in DNS.

      For example, !android@lemmy.world recently merged into !android@lemdro.id, where lemdro.id is the canonical server.

      So it would be awesome if !android@lemmy.world was entirely equivalent to !android@lemdro.id. But as it stands, the lemmy.world community had to lock and everyone had to individually migrate themselves.

      Essentially, in a case like this, I just want to call it !android (or c/android) and not need to care about which server it is hosted on. But as it is currently, I always have to reference the canonical domain since it is different than the one my account is on.

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        For example, !android@lemmy.world recently merged into !android@lemdro.id, where lemdro.id is the canonical server.

        Off-topic and what follows doesn’t mean your CNAME idea is bad, but it’s important to highlight that this example is wrong because the “merger” was forced because current mods were victims of imposter syndrome and felt obligated to gift the community to Reddit mods on another instance and denied us 19k members a say in this, and we are right now requesting to cancel it because it was a one person move. See more context in my comment here: https://lemmy.world/comment/980033 . In short, there is no “merger”, it is a rogue mod move and if you liked !android@lemmy.world and never asked to move, I recommend you stay because I believe we can absolutely defeat this hostage-taking and reopen the community.

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          You’ve made two threads about this already. It really doesn’t need to be spammed everywhere.

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            Oh, I disagree. This is valid context to the current discussion, and it raises the visibility of a real issue.

            The merging of communities above a certain size should be discouraged for the sake of diversification and moderatability, and if already large communities are being merged without or evenagainst community input, that’s an issue.

            There is no reason the admins on the server with the locked community should play ball with the mods here. These are independent and unaffiliated websites, after all.

            If you don’t like it, you don’t need to read it.

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              There are valid reasons to be for the merger, and valid reasons to be against it. However, the argument has been posted quite visibly for anyone that cares about it, and the appeal has been made to the lemmy.world admin. The admin will decide what to do, and that should be the end of it.

              What we really do not need is a swarm of cranks coming out of the woodwork to Correct The Record™ every time someone makes mention of the event without putting the “proper” spin on it. It is not some grave injustice. If you don’t like the outcome, then join one of the other existing android communities instead of participating in the merger. Or create your own, so that you can run it how you want. And then get on with your life.

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                the appeal has been made to the lemmy.world admin. The admin will decide what to do, and that should be the end of it.

                Why?

                By that logic, your complaint has been made, shouldn’t you shut up, too?

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                If you prefer the lie then you can just ignore my correction, and my future ones as well because I will keep correcting this falsehood as long as this lie is being repeated. There’s a block button on Lemmy.

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                  No thanks, I’m allergic to filter bubbles. Instead of shitting up every thread and telling people to put in nose plugs, perhaps you could stop being an “ethics in game journalism”-style crank?