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submitted 1 year ago by justsayit@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Seeing a big “politics” community in both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world just confuses me as to which I should be subscribing to and I don’t really want to subscribe to both.

Guess this is just a downside of federated instances? There’ll never just be one “/r/politics” on Lemmy?

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[-] CannedTuna@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 year ago

Not really. I usually just check the subscriber count and pick the larger one. Unless if they’re about the same, then I’ll sub to both. Just means I’ll see more content. Might be a bit of overlap sometimes, but not always.

[-] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

And if everyone does that, eventually there will be a main community that emerges and the other ones die.

[-] Kilamaos@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Exactly why federated social medias instances aren't necessarily a solution to centralized ones. Meta's stuff his being preemptively blocked, but it's bound to happen eventually.

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