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What are you guys doing when there's multiple communities for the same thing across instances? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For example, I want to join a Today I learned community but when I search for it, I come across 4 of them on different instances.

What do you guys do when you see this? Join the one with the most users, join all of them?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I don't think that should work like that.

Take, for example, [email protected] and [email protected]. They have the same name, yet they have different goals. One is a generic world news type community, while the other is specialized to the instance.

Treating everything as the same overarching community would be really limiting. Sure, the split can be a problem if you're not used to it, but like how you can have multiple similar subreddits (e.g, /r/portugal, /r/portugal2, /r/portugueses, etc) with varying levels of popularity and affluence, you should be able to have multiple Lemmy communities, but since we're federated, we don't need to pick different IDs, we can just be on a different instance.