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Anyone else thinks that "_" in community addresses should be gone? (lemmy.ml)
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In my opinion the only good thing it does is to create copies of already existing communities, so basically people tend to follow one community or the other and it divides the people who could be active.

If you want to create a community that's similar to one and for some reason you don't want to be a part of it, find another name, if you can't find another name, create your own instance. So if Lemmy is federating now we could have /c/worldnews, /c/world_news, and the same applies to every other instance that decides to do the same. In my opinion this only segregates people.

The same applies to uppercase letters, which Reddit uses but luckily Lemmy does not, imagine how many copies of a community could be created if you use both.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i say !WorldNews & !world_news should be (~symlinked to ?) the same !wordnews community unless exceptions (for different /c/...) permitted by administrators or upvoted somehow. With this, uppercase is no problem & readability would be nice.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Adding upper case letters to addresses would indeed increase what the "_" does, I don't think we should add them. Your method also requires manual intervention which is just not a good idea.