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?

  • @[email protected]OP
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    81 year 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.

    • Meow.tar.gz
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      41 year 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
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      31 year 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.