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”?

  • bdonvrA
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    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
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        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 [email protected] and [email protected] 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

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      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.