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Isn’t it a bit of an annoying having repeat communities across various Lemmy instances? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by justsayit@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Seeing a big “politics” community in both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world just confuses me as to which I should be subscribing to and I don’t really want to subscribe to both.

Guess this is just a downside of federated instances? There’ll never just be one “/r/politics” on Lemmy?

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[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 year ago

Reddit has multiple repeat communities too, they just have different names. Just to take one example, there's /r/Canada, which got taken over by right wing assholes, /r/metacanada for those same right wing assholes to go full mask off, /r/onguardforthee for the people who didn't want to put up with the right wing assholes... You get the picture.

The fact that there are multiple overlapping communities with similar purposes can be frustrating, but it also provides layers of redundancy, which is what the fediverse is all about. We've been learning a lot of object lessons recently about the problems of putting all your eggs in one basket.

[-] nemesis_aorta@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

There is currently a pending feature request to add a feature dubbed “multireddit” that communities can add themselves to and where the end user would only have to sub to one multireddit to have access to all the communities with the same on multiple servers. It seems to be opt-in for communities, though, which is good IMO.

[-] odbod@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

This sounds like a great idea; all the benefits and there's no obvious downside.

[-] nemesis_aorta@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly, can’t wait for this to be implemented!

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