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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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[–] a_Ha@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i say !WorldNews & !world_news should be (~symlinked to ?) the same !wordnews community unless exceptions (for different /c/...) permitted by administrators or upvoted somehow. With this, uppercase is no problem & readability would be nice.

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

Adding upper case letters to addresses would indeed increase what the "_" does, I don't think we should add them. Your method also requires manual intervention which is just not a good idea.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It can be useful as a word seperator. If its a copy, instance admins can remove it if necessary. Also, it seems inconsistent to allow _ in community names, but not in usernames (if thats what you're suggesting).

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

That precisely is one of the things I found it irrelevant for, what do you want to use a word separator for? It makes sense in names because there can be a million users, but with communities it's not the same, we don't need 5 communities with similar names.

Imagine this: /c/league_of_legends /c/leageof_legends /c/league_oflegends /c/leagueoflegends I just don't see the point and I don't think it makes it so much easier to read, since anyway most of the time you will be reading the display name, not the address.

[–] 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

[–] 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".