Kind of a weird UX question @julian@community.nodebb.org : when dealing with remote categories, is it preferable to sync a local category with a remote one?

[deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org]

Kind of a weird UX question @julian@community.nodebb.org : when dealing with remote categories, is it preferable to sync a local category with a remote one? Or is it better to use the "World" view to look up a remote category, and just set that to "Tracking"?

I like the idea of federating with other forums, but want to better understand each use-case.

[deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org]

@julian@community.nodebb.org I think category sync makes a lot of sense when aggregating categories of the same topic from different places, like how so many Lemmy instances have /c/fediverse.

But I think the experience of subscribing to a remote category for unique things is probably preferable. We don't necessarily want to mirror entire forums across the network, do we?

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

The mirroring functionality was better suited for NodeBB before it supported remote categories.

It's a little redundant now but still has value if the topics are cross-posted instead of moved.

Unfortunately cross posting isn't quite available yet (nor have I thought through the various aspects of it).

My recommendation for now is to pause category synchronization and use remote categories primarily.