Hi! So, I understand how the federated system works between all the Lemmy systems, but I’m confused on one thing, and I was hoping someone could answer it.
With the ability to merge many instances of Lemmy, including it’s own communities, what do we do about having 15 of the same community?
If Lemmy.world has a community for let’s say gaming, and another community also has one for gaming, now we run into a conflict of which one do I use, which one is more populated, etc.
Is that just how it’s supposed to be or are there plans to work on some type of system to prevent duplicate communities(which seems hard from a programmer’s perspective in this situation)
Basically, what you’re describing is a feature, not necessarily a bug to be resolved. Some apps may decide to implement ways to compile them all, but by design, instances can/should have duplicate-named communities.
Imagine two instances with very different idealogies that both have a c/general community. One is discussing their next hate crime, while the other is discussing the bake sale at the local HS basketball game. Merging those would be a mistake, right?
I do see where you’re coming from with this question though. I did wonder which communities to follow when I first joined, but now I follow a few same-named ones and appreciate the differences between them.
Hi! So, I understand how the federated system works between all the Lemmy systems, but I’m confused on one thing, and I was hoping someone could answer it.
With the ability to merge many instances of Lemmy, including it’s own communities, what do we do about having 15 of the same community?
If Lemmy.world has a community for let’s say gaming, and another community also has one for gaming, now we run into a conflict of which one do I use, which one is more populated, etc.
Is that just how it’s supposed to be or are there plans to work on some type of system to prevent duplicate communities(which seems hard from a programmer’s perspective in this situation)
Basically, what you’re describing is a feature, not necessarily a bug to be resolved. Some apps may decide to implement ways to compile them all, but by design, instances can/should have duplicate-named communities.
Imagine two instances with very different idealogies that both have a c/general community. One is discussing their next hate crime, while the other is discussing the bake sale at the local HS basketball game. Merging those would be a mistake, right?
I do see where you’re coming from with this question though. I did wonder which communities to follow when I first joined, but now I follow a few same-named ones and appreciate the differences between them.