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Isn’t it a bit of an annoying having repeat communities across various Lemmy instances? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by justsayit@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Seeing a big “politics” community in both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world just confuses me as to which I should be subscribing to and I don’t really want to subscribe to both.

Guess this is just a downside of federated instances? There’ll never just be one “/r/politics” on Lemmy?

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[–] Fudgeknuckles98@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

To be honest I don’t see the issue with multiple similar communities. It’s no different to how Reddit would have many subreddits with similar themes. For example on Reddit there were dozens of Star Wars subs so people would subscribe to them all