The content on all the communities seem different.

Why didn’t the “copycats” get the “this community name has already been taken” message?

It was bad enough at The Other Place finding one overlooked sub about one of your interests.

Now you have to find every single community in every single instance if you hope to talk about your topic?

I mean, look at this:

No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world

No Stupid Questions@kbin.social

No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca

No Stupid Questions@mander.xyz

    • 0rly@feddit.de
      237·
      1 year ago

      Can you be any more condescending? Op has a point, it is not ideal to have the same community on different instances. There is no need to be a dick about it.

      • dangblingus@lemmy.world
        21·
        1 year ago

        It’s not the same community. It’s 5 different communities on 5 different instances that all happen to have the same name. It will be the owners of those communities to determine whether or not they want to consolidate.

    • fsxylo@sh.itjust.works
      131·
      1 year ago

      Wait until they find out that there used to be hundreds of websites all talking about the same thing?

      And it was magical.

    • dmention7@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, as someone who used to frequent car forums back in the day, one way I think about it is you might have Mazda, Subaru, Ford, Chevy, etc specific forums. And they all had subsections devoted to suspension upgrades, with a lot of content that would look really similar to someone just getting into cars. But they also met the different needs of the different communities, and had their own vibes and culture.

      Now imagine all those communities could interact with each other directly, and you end up with something like what we’re getting with the Fediverse.

      Or maybe I’m just too hung up on analogies, idk.