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So which one is actually official one? I can't describe what "official" mean here, maybe the one that actually came from reddit or the one with more subsscribers or one with more activity ?

Also Why there are multiple copies of same community in different instances? Isn't the whole point of lemmy is that it is federated?

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[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

imagine if they had waited to invent lemmy until after reddit had shat the bed with the whole API fiasco. it's better to have a backup ready to go.

[–] gpstarman@lemmy.today 1 points 3 months ago

I'm not saying don't create lemmy community when subreddit exist.

I'm saying don't create lemmy community when another lemmy community for the same purpose already exists on different instance without a good reason.