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Reddit had similar issues. There were quite often multiple subreddits that were essentially the same thing. Sometimes it was just that multiple people made similar subreddits, sometimes there was one original subreddit that had some sort of schism.
It's just that Reddit had a large enough userbase that two near-identical subreddits could do well enough that one didn't supplant the other.
yeah, a lot of subreddits had a clone like /r/offmychest and /r/trueoffmychest, because someone didn't like moderation and created their own version.