Something I just noted. I have no clue as to whether this is a feature or a bug but some communities are duplicated across different servers - there are several ‘Technology’ for example, and I’ve seen some others - they’re clearly not just mirrors or something because the subscriber numbers are wildly different.
As I understand it the Lemmy rules state that you’re supposed to check before you create a community, but clearly if you originate it on a different server to the existing one that duplication is allowed. I only mention it because its probably worth keeping an eye out for other ‘Freemasonry’ communities popping up, so we can let them know that this one already exists…
I think that’s a feature rather than a bug? It would be unwieldy to make people check every Lemmy instance for duplicate communities, but I’ll be interested to see how that works out over time since (as you noted) we can look at and join communities outside our home instances
The prevailing sentiment is that is a little disorganized, but by design. While there may be several of a certain topic, people will gravitate to wherever has the most content and interaction.
Something I just noted. I have no clue as to whether this is a feature or a bug but some communities are duplicated across different servers - there are several ‘Technology’ for example, and I’ve seen some others - they’re clearly not just mirrors or something because the subscriber numbers are wildly different.
As I understand it the Lemmy rules state that you’re supposed to check before you create a community, but clearly if you originate it on a different server to the existing one that duplication is allowed. I only mention it because its probably worth keeping an eye out for other ‘Freemasonry’ communities popping up, so we can let them know that this one already exists…
I think that’s a feature rather than a bug? It would be unwieldy to make people check every Lemmy instance for duplicate communities, but I’ll be interested to see how that works out over time since (as you noted) we can look at and join communities outside our home instances
The prevailing sentiment is that is a little disorganized, but by design. While there may be several of a certain topic, people will gravitate to wherever has the most content and interaction.