this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2023
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I have a question about communities. Are communities server-specific, for example, is the "Gaming" community on lemmy.ml different from the one on, say, beehaw.org and will I need to join both?

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[–] JackFromWisconsin@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's right. !Gaming@lemmy.ml is different from !Gaming@beehaw.org

Note that you can use your same account to subscribe to both of them, as one may be more active than the other. Feel free to pick one or both it doesn't really matter. Different websites/servers have slightly different rules and different culture, so the posts and comments will be slightly different community to community.

[–] schizanon@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its different from centralized services, and better. Rather than there being a single universal gaming community, people can make their own, with their own rules. If one gaming community has bad mods, or one server has bad admins, you can move to a different one.

[–] testman@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wait, what about if you have two communities where mods and admins are fine. Are there any options to federate those communities?

all this time I was under impression that communities already federate

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is not a single, god community. Any instance can make /c/startrek, and people can subscribe to both.

[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only "universal community search" tool that we know of so far, is https://browse.feddit.de/ .

But I'd be very open to adding this type of functionality into lemmy's apps, and this UI too.

[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just pick the one with most activity.

Also be aware that Beehaw doesn’t federate with Lemmy.world, the biggest instance in the Lemmyverse.

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