Let it be. The duplication problem is all over the Fediverse. Over time some of those communities will die out and some will become more distinctive or specialised, attracting specific engagement in their own right; the problem will solve itself.
Can you recall which country they were based in?
For me there isn’t one; I tend not to ask people to do things that I wouldn’t do and as a team leader I’m aware that those around me are learning through observing me - I don’t want them to learn bad habits so actually their presence keeps me in check.
Playing devil’s advocate is done in the open; OP is describing something more covert.
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Yeah well. Rabbits are cool.
I see your point but I don’t agree with removing the post history or otherwise hiding it. For better or worse, post history is part of the social construct.
Think of it another way: hang out in a community long enough and you’ll have lived through the post history of other participants anyway.
I have seen this go badly and to reiterate I do appreciate the sentiment: I used to be very active on a Reddit wristwatch sub - people who had previously posted in subs related to counterfeit watches often got a hard time whenever they posted in other places (one sub in particular). It seemed that some commenters could never accept that some people had both “reps” and “gens”, or that some people wanted to have a good knowledge of “reps” (to avoid being fleeced on the second hand market, for instance).
Fortunately, there were enough level-headed folk (and more reasonable subs) that didn’t adopt this attitude.
We can choose to look or not look and we can choose whether to act or not act on what we find. And one way or the other the post history is there anyway.
I pay no attention to post history when it comes to voting behaviour; posts are as they are. I’m not much of a downvoter; it’s upvote or nothing unless a post is straight up awful inappropriate for the community it is in.
If it’s a niche subject that I’m interested in, I look at their post history in case they’ve found discussions that I’ve missed.
If it’s a particularly good, funny, extreme or otherwise “out there” post I do look at the post history for entertainment value, learning or just morbid curiosity.
That’s my guess too.
Need for Speed II SE
Now I am going to have to listen to Meshuggah’s “Bleed” and “Demiurge”. My neighbours may object.
Off the same album - Lamb of God’s “To The End” featured on my headphone test track list for a while https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klZTGPVobjQ
DethKlok in general; that stuff is put together extremely well
Have you considered Mick Gordon’s Doom soundtrack?
Off the top of my head there’s also “Hell Patrol” (Judas Priest):
Maybe the opening of “New Drugs” (Dead When I Found Her):
Or maybe “The Serpents of Eden” (Dawn of Ashes):
I think there’s an element of “careful what you wish for” (hence my stance of “let it be”). I think the risks of over-zealous behaviour, defederation and apparently spontaneous loss of host servers is quite real.
Your idea of multi-communities seems sound; as long as the user is made aware of which community they are posting to when they reply (in case of quirks in the community rules etc) it should work - and over time it is likely that certain communities will become the “go to” for certain types of discussion.