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duplicate communities on lemmy instances is not a good trend (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by myself33@beehaw.org to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] myself33@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

well, it's confusing for new user like me : you have the feeling that as soon as you subscribe to a community, you interact with the same community on all instances. Forbid duplicate names could be a solution

[–] pampoon@lemmy.ml 12 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.

[–] myself33@beehaw.org 2 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.

[–] pampoon@lemmy.ml 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.

[–] pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Won't happen, one of the pros of how it works comes from the Devs themselves:
You could have two news communities but you'll know you have news@lemmy.ca and news@lemmy.uk or something similar.

For general communities might be confusing, but you still have this in reddit and other similar platforms, you have r/memes, r/dankmemes, r/dank_meme, and many others.