The content on all the communities seem different.
Why didn’t the “copycats” get the “this community name has already been taken” message?
It was bad enough at The Other Place finding one overlooked sub about one of your interests.
Now you have to find every single community in every single instance if you hope to talk about your topic?
I mean, look at this:
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world
No Stupid Questions@kbin.social
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca
No Stupid Questions@mander.xyz
Which is stupid.
Not really, it’s just not Reddit
Of course you’re welcome to that opinion but it’s a fundamental design feature of the fediverse.
There’s no central point of control. Anyone can create an instance and create their own “No stupid questions” community.
There are obvious benefits if you’d care to consider them but if not it’s fine if the fediverse isn’t for you. There’s always reddit I guess.
There is nothing stopping the fediverse from checking with other instances to see if a name is already in use. That would be a pretty cool feature to avoid a whole bunch of duplication.
They’re not duplicates. Remember /r/games and /r/gaming? Both with unique moderation styles? Well now they don’t need different names.
Yup, this is just as easy If you notice one of the “nostupidquestions@fucknuts.com” communities is always posting edgy bullshit, you unsub and go on your way. No different than unsubing from “Actual” or “True” variants on reddit.
Yes there is.
It’s decentralised. There’s no central authority.
Even if lemmy imposed that restriction, you could just fork the code and remove it.
Wait, he’s got a point though: Why not something like this:
A user wants to create a new community. He enters a name, then the system checks and informs that “the fediverse already has a community by that name +here and +here.” The user may still create this same community on this instance - or he might say, hey cool thanks, and go subscribe to (one of?) the existing ones instead.
You’re missing the point as well.
This would only help if people creating these communities were not aware that communities with the same name exist on other instances.
Even if this feature did discourage someone from creating a new community, some other fief lord would be along shortly to create it.
I did feel the same way about multiple communities initially, but now I’ve been here a while I realise that it’s just not a problem - just subscribe to all of them, that’s the solution.
Learning new and different things can be hard. I don’t think you get it quite yet. Letting anyone spin up anything is the whole point. Apps will get better and allow more features over time that might make it easier to manage. But what you’re arguing is one of the main selling points. I know you don’t see it yet, but I promise it is.
Ah yes, just like how having multiple email providers is stupid. We should all just use Gmail as a the single source of truth! /s
And confusing
This is the same thing as having a community on Discord, Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook, except you get the feature of them seamlessly working together.
Now I’m wondering if we could create meta subs that we could subscribe too…
This has been suggested for a long time and odds are we will see this feature. Whether it’s app or lemmy code itself.
I think over time some instances and some admins will become more popular, and weed out the rest.
To some extent perhaps but I don’t think that should be the objective.
Just subscribe to all the “no stupid questions” communities. It’s no big thing.
New ones get created all the constantly. Are they supposed to spend all their time monitoring every instance for new variants of a community?
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