I understand that a user on any instance can subscribe to any community in the fediverse, but I have been a bit confused when searching for communities to join. Sometimes there are communities on different instances, with the exact same name.

  • Do these communities talk to each other at all, or are they completely separate, with a different host, posts, mods, subscribers etc.

  • Should I just join the largest (and presumably, most active) one?

  • Is there anything in place to discourage communities of same name, but different instances, from “competing”?

  • Azzu@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, if someone declares the fediverse as “too confusing”, I don’t care too much to interact with them.

    The concept of “same name but hosted on different instances” is really not that hard.

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        1 year ago

        You don’t have to be tech-literate. Problem is people are expecting Lemmy to behave exactly like Reddit. You have instances and then you have communities.

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        1 year ago

        I expect all drivers on the road to know how to drive. I expect every cook at a restaurant to know how to cook. I expect every person on the internet to know how to cook a quesadilla. It’s just logic

      • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I agree. The sad fact is that most non-IT-pros use Facebook, what’s app and Instagram, mayyyybe reddit.

        The fediverse is by (and for) und people who care about these things. And we understand how it works.