When I look at https://lemmy.ml/c/startrek vs https://kbin.social/m/startrek I see two entirely different lists of posts. Why? It’s the same topic, just on different instances. How can we have communities about topics without having them siloed into their own instance-based communities? Is this just related to that 0.18 issue with Lemmy/kbin not talking nicely, or is this how the Fediverse is?
Is it (at least theoretically) possible for me to post an article on https://kbin.social/m/startrek and have it automatically show up on https://lemmy.ml/c/startrek, or are they always going to be two separate communities?
Yeah, this was the case on Reddit too (which is why some subs had weird names or were something like r/realsubject). In the end one of them would slowly die off while the other would dominate based on moderation policies, etc. Or they would continue working side by side where each sub had their own slant or focus (eg. r/seattle vs r/seattleWA, r/canada vs r/onguardforthee . In both cases the original sub got taken over by right wing mods, and a new sub was started for discussion without Nazis).
I think this is something that apps will be able to solve with the equivalent of multi-reddits. Otherwise you can just subscribe to both, and they’ll both show up on your feed, so I don’t really see a problem there.