You can follow both. The topic are curated by admins & staff, so we share what we like. Feed are your own selection private or public.
Imo, the best way to understand because it is not clear when you discover federation for the first time, is creating your own private multicommunity : feed.
You can tailor the timeline to your need by creating your own feed or following our selection & user selection.
e.g. I’d like to make a post about a very niche hobby, but they are split in even smaller communities (many with same name in different servers).
Do you just post in the bigger one? Is it common to cross post?
Yes, usually post in the largest one - we have a lot of people that try to fold together communities into one by closing inactive communities and redirecting. Piefed automatically folds together linkposts which is the equivalent of crossposts. There’s no crosspost function akin to Reddit though, if that’s what you mean.
how does lemmy/piefed deal with fragmented communities?
e.g. I’d like to make a post about a very niche hobby, but they are split in even smaller communities (many with same name in different servers).
Do you just post in the bigger one? Is it common to cross post?
I complete skavau reply. :)
Piefed support two thing that reduce fragmentation : multicommunities and merge crosspost (only those with a link.)
There is 2 kind of multicommunity :
What do it mean ?
multicommunity
If there is several community (eg : !europe@feddit.org, !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com …), you can regroup them into a multicommunity.
The upcoming version of Lemmy v1 will support multicommunity.
crosspost
If you share a link, as https://www.lemonde.fr/ in !europe@feddit.org and crosspost it to !france@jlai.lu piefed will meege comment from !europe@feddit.org & !france@jlai.lu
Thanks. When should I use topic vs feed? Can I follow both?
You can follow both. The topic are curated by admins & staff, so we share what we like. Feed are your own selection private or public.
Imo, the best way to understand because it is not clear when you discover federation for the first time, is creating your own private multicommunity : feed.
You can tailor the timeline to your need by creating your own feed or following our selection & user selection.
Yes, usually post in the largest one - we have a lot of people that try to fold together communities into one by closing inactive communities and redirecting. Piefed automatically folds together linkposts which is the equivalent of crossposts. There’s no crosspost function akin to Reddit though, if that’s what you mean.
Hi, just wanted to let you know since your here, the text your box is black on black background when using the Irix-1988 theme
Got it. I’ll try to pass it on to whoever did that.