One of my largest pain points with Lemmy is that there are multiple active communities for the same topic, causing quite a few duplicate posts to show up in my feed that is difficult to filter. Hopefully there comes some kind of solution, outside of userbase, this is (what I believe) one of the larger issues compared to Reddit.

However, I still switched over to Lemmy for my primary 'Reddit'-needs.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Lemmy needs a "all" option for communities with the same name so you can, for instance, browse across all the fediverse's gaming communities.

[–] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

jerboa lets me see a weighted feed from all posts the instance can see

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

Piefed is a Lemmy "competitor" that actually does some sort of "multi comm" combined view type of functionality

Piefed.social

It's not mature yet, but last I heard interoperability was mostly ok, though had oddities

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

It helps to see communities as categories for an instance, each instance will have a different response to the same post based on the general instance vibe and culture. That's also why picking a good instance to browse locally can be pretty useful.

[–] kane@femboys.biz 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I like that view, and it made me think of a possible "implementation"/"fix" as well:

Combine the post somehow (Based on attachment/title/something else?)
Filter/categorize the comments by instance that the comment was originally posted towards (Not by user, as that would be awful)

The largest issue here that I can see, how do we treat "new" comments to a post?

My annoyance is primarily with the fact that I see the same image 3x in a row, on a fairly regular basis. I might unsub from a few communities that share the same content.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

There are many different workarounds, I personally don't put much stock into sorting by "all" generally, sorting locally tends to be a better experience and has less repetition.

[–] kane@femboys.biz 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like a good solution for people who are on larger instances, my instance does not host any communities sadly.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

You can pseudo-curate by only subscribing to your most prefered instance of comm, but you won't be able to see instances with allow-lists as the basis, rather than block-lists.