I understand that a user on any instance can subscribe to any community in the fediverse, but I have been a bit confused when searching for communities to join. Sometimes there are communities on different instances, with the exact same name.

  • Do these communities talk to each other at all, or are they completely separate, with a different host, posts, mods, subscribers etc.

  • Should I just join the largest (and presumably, most active) one?

  • Is there anything in place to discourage communities of same name, but different instances, from “competing”?

  • v_krishna@lemmy.ml
    9·
    1 year ago

    I think the opportunity is more interesting though for apps to provide a federated multi-community experience seamlessly. E.g. a/technology shows me an intermingled feed of all the c/technology communities that my home instance federated with

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
      41·
      1 year ago

      And what happens when you go to make a post?

      Plus that would lead to you seeing many identical or near identical discussions

        • BlueÆther@no.lastname.nz
          31·
          1 year ago

          But I don’t have a c/technology on my instance - and I don’t need one.

          A much more interesting thing about the fediverse is that !trees@no.lastname.nz and !trees@lemmy.world are both about “trees”, but one is about getting high and the other is about therapeutic uses of trees and shrooms.

          I wouldn’t what a “I didn’t tidy my room - because I got high” in a community about treating mental illness with plants

      • HollowNotion@lemm.ee
        3·
        1 year ago

        Disallow posts when viewing a custom feed like this. Force users to click/tap in to the community they want to post in before they’re allowed to start a post. Might be a little wonky at first, but I feel like you’d get that muscle memory eventually.