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Anyone else thinks that "_" in community addresses should be gone? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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In my opinion the only good thing it does is to create copies of already existing communities, so basically people tend to follow one community or the other and it divides the people who could be active.

If you want to create a community that's similar to one and for some reason you don't want to be a part of it, find another name, if you can't find another name, create your own instance. So if Lemmy is federating now we could have /c/worldnews, /c/world_news, and the same applies to every other instance that decides to do the same. In my opinion this only segregates people.

The same applies to uppercase letters, which Reddit uses but luckily Lemmy does not, imagine how many copies of a community could be created if you use both.

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[โ€“] greensand@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You would have to ban more than just the hyphen, so might as well leave it as is

[โ€“] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

That's the only character allowed, so everything else is already banned. If you try to create a community it says "lowercase, underscores and no spaces".