So which one is actually official one? I can’t describe what “official” mean here, maybe the one that actually came from reddit or the one with more subsscribers or one with more activity ?
Also Why there are multiple copies of same community in different instances? Isn’t the whole point of lemmy is that it is federated?
Yeah, it’s federated, meaning you can subscribe to each of them and post to whichever one you fancy. If you want to post to multiple, it’s a good idea to use the cross-post feature.
Having only one singular official community would be rather bad, as then the respective server owners and moderators would have central control like on Reddit.
But won’t it be a good thing to create another community after an already existing community gone bad instead having multiple at the same time?
Also won’t there will be an fragmentation of users issue? Won’t it lead to not a single community grows big because it’s users are scattered across different instances?
It’s not like you can stop people from creating the same community again. Just join the one with the most active users. It’s also not like this isn’t happening on Reddit too, the subreddits there just have slightly different names instead of the same one on a different instance.
Thnak You.
I mean, these communities do get created when someone feels like there’s a reason to. There’s just no council or whatever regulating when and where a community gets to be created, so any user on any instance can decide to open up and promote their community.
And frankly, I have no idea what the precise effects are. When you subscribe to all of these, it won’t really be much different from just one big community in that sense. It may mean, though, that someone new accidentally joining only one of the communities will not be presented all the content they want, yeah.
On the flip side, having it split is kind of cool, because you can decide to only subscribe to 2 out of 4 communities, if you only want half as much of this content in your feed. Or you can decide to subscribe to all of these, but not to the one on
angry-instance.net, because you don’t like the tone of the discussions in that one.It is what it is.🙂↕️
This feels relevant
.Sometimes the mods of overlapping communities will discuss merging, usually initiated when one of them notices there is little engagement in their own. But the general consensus in the Lemmy admin/mod population is that having overlapping communities on different instances is a net benefit.
The kbin.social for sure is dead, that instance has been down for a few weeks now.
Between the three remaining one, the lemmy.ml is obviously the most active.
Thank You.
- !unixporn@lemmy.ml is the most active
- !unixporn@lemmy.world was (for a short period) officially affiliated with r/unixporn
- !unixporn@kbin.social, as Blaze mentioned, appears dead
- !unixporn@lemmy.sdf.org – SDF is one of the oldest servers out there (est. 1987), their Lemmy instance is going to be friendlier to vintage computing
- !unixporn@lemmit.online is a Reddit repost bot
What do you think federation means?
I thought it will be like various communities will be on various instances and lemmy connects them, not a single community scattered across multiple instances.
Honestly, it’s no different from multiple subreddits about the same topic. This problem isn’t unique to Lemmy.
Yeah, but just because this problem exists on reddit, it doen’t mean we have inherit those bad traits from reddit, right?
But, In the end there is nothing stops people from creating communites. So, Yeah.
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