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Isn’t it a bit of an annoying having repeat communities across various Lemmy instances? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by justsayit@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Seeing a big “politics” community in both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world just confuses me as to which I should be subscribing to and I don’t really want to subscribe to both.

Guess this is just a downside of federated instances? There’ll never just be one “/r/politics” on Lemmy?

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[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The name thing doesn't seem that complicated. I already know that !memes@slrpnk.net are gonna be lefty memes, and the memes at !memes@lemmy.ml will be generic, and so on.

There are some where it's less distinct. Technology@lemmy.world and technlogy@beehaw.org are not so easily differentiated, but at the moment they have totally different content on their frontpages, so I have no complaints. Over time, I expect both to evolve, most likely in different ways.

I think the search problem will get resolved over time. Currently, search is very rudimentary, and barely useful for finding new communities. As it becomes better and cataloging communities it can also become better at downranking or excluding communities below a certain activity level.

[–] brettvitaz@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The name thing doesn't seem that complicated. I already know that !memes@slrpnk.net are gonna be lefty memes

Lol. I can only assume it’s a massive joke and I’m just not in on it. !memes@slrpnk.net in no way means “lefty memes”. It only proves my point

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well... are you subscribed to !memes@slrpnk.net?

I don't expect you to know that Gerry's Bar and Grill is a gay bar or that Fanatics is a Packers bar by their name. You find out by going there.

[–] brettvitaz@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A good thing to note is that both of those bars you mentioned have different names. That makes it easier to know which to go to, once I figure out which is which.