what’s stopping 8 different instances from hosting a ‘politics’, ‘funny’, ‘fediverse’, community?

these duplicate communities defeat the goal to replace reddit.

  • pampoonEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    But then a single instance could lock out all other instances from having that community name. Even if that instance didn’t actually have a good community.

    • sukotai@beehaw.orgOPBEnglish
      41·
      2 years ago

      you’re right. it’s not really a big deal if you know how lemmy works and understand you subscribe to a ‘local’ community.

      • pampoonEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I’m still figuring it out too, but I think the idea is you subscribe to all of the similar copies across the instances so it all shows up on your feed. Over time, the best of the best will rise to the top sort of thing.