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submitted 1 year ago by SeaOtter@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I understand that a user on any instance can subscribe to any community in the fediverse, but I have been a bit confused when searching for communities to join. Sometimes there are communities on different instances, with the exact same name.

  • Do these communities talk to each other at all, or are they completely separate, with a different host, posts, mods, subscribers etc.

  • Should I just join the largest (and presumably, most active) one?

  • Is there anything in place to discourage communities of same name, but different instances, from “competing”?

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[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And what happens when you go to make a post?

Plus that would lead to you seeing many identical or near identical discussions

[-] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ideally it would post to whichever instance you're logged into, but show up on all federated instances.

[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 2 points 1 year ago

But I don't have a c/technology on my instance - and I don't need one.

A much more interesting thing about the fediverse is that !trees@no.lastname.nz and !trees@lemmy.world are both about "trees", but one is about getting high and the other is about therapeutic uses of trees and shrooms.

I wouldn't what a "I didn't tidy my room - because I got high" in a community about treating mental illness with plants

[-] HollowNotion@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Disallow posts when viewing a custom feed like this. Force users to click/tap in to the community they want to post in before they're allowed to start a post. Might be a little wonky at first, but I feel like you'd get that muscle memory eventually.

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