For example, I want to join a Today I learned community but when I search for it, I come across 4 of them on different instances.
What do you guys do when you see this? Join the one with the most users, join all of them?
For example, I want to join a Today I learned community but when I search for it, I come across 4 of them on different instances.
What do you guys do when you see this? Join the one with the most users, join all of them?
I tend to take a look at each one and see if they have slightly different vibes despite similar names. If they’re different enough I’ll subscribe to multiple. E.g !anime@lemmy.ml and !animepics@reddthat.com
Also shout out to https://browse.feddit.de/ for letting you see communities that your instance hasn’t indexed yet. If you look there before creating a new community we should have fewer unintentional duplicates.
Hadn’t seen https://browse.feddit.de/ before. Thanks for that!
NP, with the Reddit exodus and new instances springing up we’re bound to have non indexed ones even on your big ole lemmy.ml one
Next update should make the community browser a part of lemmy