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submitted 11 months ago by justsayit@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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[-] justsayit@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

Seems like this is probably the answer. We don’t need to not looking for a 1 to 1 replacement for Reddit and the variation we see in communities could end up bringing some vibrancy and more differing opinions on things around here.

[-] RustedSwitch@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

To be fair, this often happened on Reddit as well. I was subscribed to 6 virtual reality subs, and at least that many 3d printing.

One issue I’ve found with this model is that content is being cross posted pretty heavily, meaning I’ll see the same post by the same person 5 times in the matter of a few minutes.

I’m trying to keep in mind that it’s still early, and communities are still finding their way. The ones that form an identity will have a larger base, and will become the de facto place that posts are made.

[-] justsayit@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

Big oof on the reposts across communities. That’ll get old.

[-] RustedSwitch@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I’m hoping that settle out too.

[-] ablackcatstail@lemmy.goblackcat.com 3 points 11 months ago

I don't see this as a "bug" of Lemmy but a feature. What if mods get heavy handed because they feel 'insulted' and ban somebody simply out of spite. This gives the ability of somebody to form their own community of the same name on a different server without stifling speech. I sincerely hope that this does not get 'fixed.'

[-] TeaHands@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

It's come in clutch a couple times as well when one instance is having federation issues, but I still get to see other content coming from a community on another one. There's definitely downsides though, no argument there.

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