I thought I might give Lemmy a tried as I want to not use Reddit as much and feel bad every time I do, even if it searching an problem I have and Reddit post is the top result.
Might be overthinking it but does community with same name but on different instances matter? I remember feeling little overwhelmed seeing few gaming communities but of course are on different instances and not sure if one is better or if joining them all is okay or just better to join in one. I wasn’t sure if they would have different rule-set or how they deal with moderation as each would be a different moderation team I assume.
I have used Mastodon and Misskey forks for couple years but I hadn’t use Lemmy as much and still a noob with it. Sorry if this has been asked loads of times, I just want an answer so I stop overthinking so much where I stop using it
I changed how i look at communities when i switched to lemmy. Instead of just looking at the part before the @ i look at the whole thing and consider that to be its name.
So instead of the gaming community its gaming@xyz.qr and gaming@abc.de as a whole.
Tl;dr: theyre different separate comminities and the name is for all intents and purposes the entire thing.
I suggest subscribing to all of them for the topics you want and slowly through exposure learning which ones youd like to keep.