So I made a community on lemmy.ml. There is another community with the exact same name as mine on lemmy.world
When I use a website to search communities across instances like lemmyverse.net or browse.feddit.de it won’t find my community but it will find the one someone else made on lemmy.world
If I search for other communities I made on lemmy.ml on those sites it displays the results fine. I’ve also went to lemmy.world and searched for my community with the URL and the [email protected] and still no luck
Can someone please explain this to me?
There is no need to recreate the same communities across instances. Just participate in the community on lemmy.world. This is what federation is about: It’s all one big forum with communites on different servers, but they all can interact!
Well I already see someone that created a community and is doing nothing with it. People are going to create the same community and actually start running it and posting things
Conversely, having only one community on the (now) largest instance is the exact opposite. Maybe the person who created the other one is a power hungry asshole. Maybe there’s a lot of reasons. The cool thing about all of this, is that both communities could flourish, or one will become more popular and the other will be a ghost town. Either way no harm no foul.
