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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?
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.🙂↕️