The above are great ways to find communities l, and if you struggle to subscribe once finding one (it can sometimes be surprisingly confusing), check out https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/39208.

[–] Zak8022@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Ok I have a dumb question. Is Technology@beehaw.org supposed to have the same content as technology@lemmy.ml? Or are those two similarly names, but separate things with potentially differnt content?

[–] Andreas@feddit.dk 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're different communities with the same name, because community names don't have to be unique between different instances. I get that subscribing to two different communities with the same theme is annoying when you could save time and subscribe to one, but having backup communities is a blessing when the instance shuts down or mods start power tripping. A "multireddit" feature that can combine multiple communities into one subscription feed would keep subscribing convenient without forcing only one community to exist per topic.

[–] Zak8022@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you, this makes a lot of sense. Kinda what I figured, but wanted to make sure.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

They're supposed to have the same content, but may have different moderation.

A great example - /r/gaming vs. /r/games on Reddit (or /r/truegaming). All basically the same thing, but they have different moderation styles.

[–] lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

they are different communities with different content

this is one of the most confusing things about lemmy

I'm actually subscribed to both of these and will see if they both survive or if one of them becomes the 'main' tech community

[–] energythief@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

This is the biggest confusion and obstacle to me.

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