The content on all the communities seem different.

Why didn’t the “copycats” get the “this community name has already been taken” message?

It was bad enough at The Other Place finding one overlooked sub about one of your interests.

Now you have to find every single community in every single instance if you hope to talk about your topic?

I mean, look at this:

No Stupid [email protected]

No Stupid [email protected]

No Stupid [email protected]

No Stupid [email protected]

  • snooggums
    6•1 year ago

    I go to two different grocery stores to get different vegetables because they have varying quality. For example, if I want tomatoes I go to store 1 and for onions I go to store 2. For carrots I go to either because they are fine at both.

    So if two instances have tomato, onion, and carrot magazines/communities with similar quality patterns I might want to sub tomatoes at one, onions at the other, and carrots at both.

    I just want an easier way to find all of the instances that have onions so I know what I might be missing at the local farmer’s market. Or find out that a new farmer’s market opened up!

    • @stringere
      2•1 year ago

      What is a “better” onion? More variety, maybe? Onions come in two kinds for me (other than type) edible and not; not a lot of spectrum on onion quality for me I guess.

      Just about any other fruit or vegetable I can accept the varying quality of produce but onions and potatoes are either firm and good or mushy and not for me.

      Or I could be overthinking what was probably an arbitrarily pulled example for an explanatory analogy.

      • snooggums
        3•1 year ago

        Fresh, not bruised, the size I like, in stock. Just better quality overall. Same with the tomatoes at the other store.

        I have no idea why there is such a difference in quality consistently for those two vegetables, but it has been consistent for a couple of years.

        Since the two stores are within 5 minutes of each other and there are other reasons to go to each (brands, deli, bakery,etc.) I split the vegetables while I’m at it.

        • @stringere
          2•1 year ago

          Fair enough. I don’t know that I’ve ever had a grocer with consistently bruised/rotted onions. I’ll go ahead and put that in the plus column.