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duplicate communities on lemmy instances is not a good trend (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by myself33@beehaw.org to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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what's stopping 8 different instances from hosting a 'politics', 'funny', 'fediverse', community?

these duplicate communities defeat the goal to replace reddit.

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[โ€“] cosmicsploogedrizzle@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We are early days. Competition breeds innovation. The best communities will filter to the top

[โ€“] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Yes, also what could possibly be the alternative? Federation but with unique community names that transcend what instance you're on? What would be the point?