• @[email protected]
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    81 year ago

    Can one simply create an arbitrary community on any lemmy instance? I wonder how lemmy handles multiple communities of the same name, across multiple instances.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 year ago

      yeah, that’s kind of an issue. Many communities exist more than once on multiple instances. Then again, this can also be a benefit. Maybe one of them isn’t to your liking -> choose another one. Or one of them goes down -> there’s a backup.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Sorry, connecting might be a bad way to explaining it. You can access communities on other Lemmy instances (as long as they’re federated together, which they probably are).

    • Francisco Reyes
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      11 year ago

      I am new to Lemmy, but from what I can tell you can create an arbitrary community, as long as the server allows it. Same name on different instances are treated as totally separate entities. In my opinion, as a new user, I think that is highly non optimal as it creates a fragmented set of users for a given topic. If you go to feedit.de and search for technology you will see a number (seems about 10 or so) different communities with the exact same name. It is up to you to go to each one of them and figure out which one, or ones, you want to follow.

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      11 year ago

      The same way Reddit handled communities that had nearly identical or similar topics:

      One gets popular, the other doesn’t.