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this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
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Communities can also look like they have the same topic on the surface level, but be completely different when in the context of their own instances. The obvious example is "news" or "politics" or other "real world things" communities on separate country-focused instances, but also "news" on an art instance could be dedicated to "art news" or "writing news" in a writing specific instance.
Or the distinction could be more subtle, like a tech community on slrpnk could focus towards more eco-friendly viewpoints to news about tech compared to a general purpose instance's tech community. Or Beehaw, for example, seems to lean on more "serious" talk and discussion (or I imagine it would given it's history, I avoid visiting too news-heavy communities due to vaguely gestures at everything) compared to, say, .world which really seems to embody Reddit's free-for-all vibe.
Good point, thanks for spelling it out. I was only vaguely aware of what you just described.
That seems to be something unique, tied to the federated structure. Could be confusing for people coming from monolithic platforms. They may not realize what they are seeing.