Is it a good thing if there are identical communities on different instances?
Is it a good thing if there are identical communities on different instances?
Is it worthwhile to try to get mods to combine them? It just seems like a bit of a waste when trying to grow a community and its split in two.
Or is this what the fediverse is supposed to look like?
I read before somebody said that we might be able to combine similar communities at some point but don't know if that's true.
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this gets asked a lot. Yes, the whole point of this platform is to be decentralized. Nothing stops you, or anyone, from following 5 different communities on the same topic. The advantages are many. Basically each instance will be able to mod with/apply different rules to their communities, they will attract different crowds (even if they overlap a lot) and they will have a different style. If one goes down, which is likely in these platforms, or if say an instance cannot be sustained anymore, or if one of the instances defederates your instance, or whatever- not all is lost. You still have all the other communities to follow.
there is a popular saying that goes, ''don't put all your eggs in the same basket''.
Apologies if this is a repeat question. I'm not entirely sure if there is a way to search in Jerboa for similar posts but I don't think there.
oh I didn't mean it that way, no need to apologize. I just notice this question comes up a lot inside different communities, people often wonder why there are also two/three/N other communities and why don't they all merge. It highlights a lot of people still expect things to be centralized even in a decentralized space. But, it's good that you ask, so hopefully more people understand better why it's good thing to avoid monopolies on topics.
The search function should function the same way as the search function on the official web interface. That means however, unless you're searching the url of a specific community, it can only search for communities, comments and posts on instances it has cached. If it hasn't had a member visit a community at least once, it won't know it exists.
I recommend browse.feddit.de to search for communities, and for newly created communities, you can search through the posts in !newcommunities@lemmy.world
There are many other places to look, you can find multiple lists of communities that migrated from Reddit with a quick google search.
Just saw that some apps do have a search function already. I've been using Jerboa and it doesn't have one yet (for posts/comments that is).
Thanks