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It’s my hope to see unity and cohesion is the Lemmy-verse. Looks like [email protected] has over 39k subscribers.

Is there a way that this same conversation can “merge” with that one so that this one can be archived there?

How are Lemmy instances coping with two great ideas that might have come up at the same time but one has a lot more traction?

And true story: I’m not trying to start anything. I’m sincerely trying to promote Lemmy and perfect it — this would just be sanding the edges?

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (14 children)

The redundancy is somewhat the point. While one instance may have a dominant version of a community which is visited by people of numerous instances, other instances having local versions promotes decentralization, and helps smaller instance form their own culture.

The decentralization is good because it ensures a single power mod, cabal of mods, or crooked admin situation can not unilaterally ruin everything. Users can just jump ship to a different community that is run by different admins and mods.

Smaller instances having spaces where their own memes and in-jokes is good to create a culture for that instance to help give some different flavor and helps that specific instance grow. This feeds into supporting the variety of smaller communities on that instance, allowing them a chance at traction rather than existing in a void.

If you want both communities, just subscribe to them both and let them appear on your feed.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Also: Cross post to both communities if you like.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I find cross posting between the communities here kind of annoying tbh. I end up getting a lot of duplicate posts because I subscribe to both like OP suggested

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I thought you only see a cross post once

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Oh maybe you do. Maybe I'm just seeing posts people have manually posted across multiple subs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Depends on the UI.

In the feed, or rather the API endpoint that populates the feed, it is up to the client to combine duplicate; there's no cross post data attached to the post objects until you click into a post.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Isn't that only if both posts are on the same server?

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