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Memmy - An iOS client for Lemmy
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these are different communities with the same post in them
It’s kind of the entire point of lemmy, it’s decentralized. Nobody can control other instances. There’s nobody “allowing” it including the lemmy devs
I don’t think what you’re describing is technically feasible. If it worked how you describe, then when someone makes a community that instance would have to somehow go and ask every single other instance in existence - hey do you have this community name already? We wouldn’t be able to like, keep a database of all the existing communities everywhere.