If I understand Lemmy correctly, you can create duplicate communities on different instances. Isn’t this kinda counter productive because this may lead to less user interaction in those communities, because the user base gets split up between competing communities.

Is there a way to fight this division of the (small) userbase or is this effect even desired because it leads to more tight knit communities on the different instances?

  • CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    It would be nice if on creating a new community which already exists on another instance, a recommendation is displayed. Something like

    /c/whatever already exists on the following instances:

    You would probably reach more lemmings there.
    Would you still like to continue creating your_insurance.com/c/whatever?

    Right now where each instance doesn’t yet know many remote instances, it would not work that good yet, but once instances have more users that already added many remote communities it could work great.