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duplicate communities on lemmy instances is not a good trend (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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what's stopping 8 different instances from hosting a 'politics', 'funny', 'fediverse', community?

these duplicate communities defeat the goal to replace reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But then a single instance could lock out all other instances from having that community name. Even if that instance didn’t actually have a good community.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you're right. it's not really a big deal if you know how lemmy works and understand you subscribe to a 'local' community.

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

I’m still figuring it out too, but I think the idea is you subscribe to all of the similar copies across the instances so it all shows up on your feed. Over time, the best of the best will rise to the top sort of thing.