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So I'm assuming the duplicate communities are communities of the same exact name in different instances/server. Is anyone else finding this somewhat confusing?

Is there a way to find/pick the "right" one, or should it just be based on whichever has the most users?

New to Fediverse (here and Mastodon), still trying to wrap my head around the whole thing.

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[–] kennocha@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I think this is kind of a larger problem with the fediverse, and ultimately why it won’t displace Reddit.

If I subscribe to a community called music, as a user I expect to see all posts from the fediverse. Instead what we get is posts from a specific instance. Duplicate isolated communities is not user friendly.

Fediverse atm just feels like a complicated reinvention of forums.

[–] ren@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

the same is true with reddit. They may not have the exact same name, but how many music subreddits are there? I follow at least 5 or 6 on reddit, but there are thousands, many of which compete for the same or sim genres or ideas, but a few tend to be the one people gravitate too and so be it.

I run Alternative Nation here !alternativenation@lemmy.world but on reddit here are 3 of many options, but clearly on reddit indieheads got the users.

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

whoohoo - subscribed.
Now I have to dig out my college radio mixtapes I made in 1988. They're around here somewhere

[–] ren@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

yisssssss having lots of fun in there! new, old, in between alternative fun!

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