Ok, taking a total fresh approach based on all the months I’ve been reading people’s suggestions and !lemmywishlist@lemmy.ml kind of things…
All / All Remote / Local / Remote Specific-Isntance
I think server operators should at minimum want the ability to view Remote-only, and even per-instance. Further, I think proxy of API to a community should be something to head towards… where a Lemmy API call can be forwarded as an API call on another Lemmy server for a specific community.
Small, Medium, Large, Trending, Featured Community
Some stock multi-community lists, some of which are dynamically generated like Small / Medium / Large based on number of active posts, users, or other tunable parameters. Encourage people to engage in topics that they normally would not see…
Multi-community sharing
I think foundation is that it should use words and not numbers. Right now, the entire Lemmy system is built upon using localized index numbers for community. Even if it just becomes a JSON blob to throw into PostgreSQL and recall by name…
Maybe have them like communities. And people can subscribe/unsubscribe to a specific list. And the list can have moderators who regulate it (editors). And an option to clone a list to new name.
/mc/ multi-community, name. And no ID numbers. A Trigger or something would have to build the ID numbers in the background.
And a browser of these, much like communities are browsed… and maybe even voting on them. Lemmy doesn’t have voting on communities - subscribe alone - but sometimes you don’t want to subscribe because they have too much content - but you would still vote for it or recommend it.
Pros and cons
Community
con, does not have a community subscribe and block list
pro, has moderators list that spans instances
Person
con, you can’t login to a person account on a remote instance. So that’s less like a community
con, no moderator list for a person
pro, has all the ability to build list of communities to whitelist or blacklist
pro, can also blacklist persons (which I guess a community can too, ban list)
More observations
A Person who can login is a local user, and there is an alternate table for that.
A community does have a home instance as does a Person. So it does matter where created. all_memes@example.com
non-Lemmy federated things get confused by communities name clashing with persons. Which even email systems I have used with public folders assigning an email address, it’s basically treated like a person. Lemmy allows a@person and a@community, do we follow that convention, a@multipass ?