So I made a community on lemmy.ml. There is another community with the exact same name as mine on lemmy.world

When I use a website to search communities across instances like lemmyverse.net or browse.feddit.de it won’t find my community but it will find the one someone else made on lemmy.world

If I search for other communities I made on lemmy.ml on those sites it displays the results fine. I’ve also went to lemmy.world and searched for my community with the URL and the !@lemmy.ml and still no luck

Can someone please explain this to me?

  • ChrislyBear@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There is no need to recreate the same communities across instances. Just participate in the community on lemmy.world. This is what federation is about: It’s all one big forum with communites on different servers, but they all can interact!

    • Al52025OP
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      1 year ago

      Well I already see someone that created a community and is doing nothing with it. People are going to create the same community and actually start running it and posting things