feels to me like there should be kind of outreach and way to connect these communities, i know here is more ‘left unity’ and shitposty than gzd but still the overlap between the 2 seems too large for it to be worth having 2 separate tiny communities instead of combining them into one bigger one.
i see a ton of stuff that’s literally just reposted on both anyway, and neither here or lemmygrad is anywhere close to the size that r/gzd or /r/cth was on reddit. feels like they should be interconnected somehow or one should absorb the other. the online non-corporate social media ‘leftist’ community is far too small to be split up this much.
i personally vote for hexbear because i like the bear.
Why is everyone in here trying to reinvent federation lol
The sysops/devs behind the sites could very easily slap OAuth into their code. Let people login on here with Lemmygrad or other accounts and vice versa.
Not sure how strong the devs here or there are with federated identities or web dev more generally though.
EDIT: Just found the thread where the operators discuss their troubles with having forked and changed too much code, that’s a PITA. I know Rust and C++ and Go but not TypeScript/JS shit but I’m too busy and wouldn’t get along with the mods in all likelihood.
if we keep separate, we can have “stop going on lemmygrad” type posts
“stop going on lemmygrad”
“there’s nothing of value there”
“browsing lemmygrad is the 69th type of liberalism”
I can already see them coming
In theory, federation should facilitate this.
