what’s stopping 8 different instances from hosting a ‘politics’, ‘funny’, ‘fediverse’, community?

these duplicate communities defeat the goal to replace reddit.

  • sukotai@beehaw.orgOPBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.mlEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.devEnglish
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      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.