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This Asklemmy and [email protected] appear to be identical in purpose yet are hosted on two different Lemmy's. Do you guys have plans to merge into one?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That is one unavoidable, and actually desirable, trait of Lemmy as a whole: the existence of one community in one server doesn't stop you from creating a similar one elsewhere.

Perhaps some will decide to merge. Perhaps they won't. Some might be badly moderated and users will avoid it, some might have great content and naturally attract people.

Sometimes you'll follow both because they're both active and good. Sometimes there will be 10 different ones but one is clearly the dominant and most active so you don't even bother with the others.

This isn't something you should worry about. Browse the community, do you like it? Join in. Don't like it? Don't join.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Even in reddit you had multiple subs dedicated to basically the same thing. Like r/interestingasfuck and r/damnthatsinteresting, and all the memes subs

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the reply.

It's just a change coming from reddit where there was only one r/askreddit and it was the dominant and active one as there couldn't be another r/askreddit. I'm still adjusting to there being multiple Lemmy servers.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There were like a brazillion Ask subs, what are you talking about? I was active on at least a dozen of them at one time or another.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There were/are a bunch of "Ask ____" subs, yes; I was subscribed to many of them. But there was only one r/AskReddit, which most closely aligns with the purpose of the two lemmy communities referenced in this post.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Many different Lemmy servers have an announcements community, but just because they have similar naming doesn't mean they serve the same purpose or should be merged.

The idea of monopolizing subreddit names like /r/askreddit needs to die. If you like one asklemmy over the other subscribe to it and not the other and let your vote dictate which community is the true embodiment of /r/AskReddit. Or subscribe to both: no different than it would have been being subscribed to both /r/technology and /r/tech. Similar communities with different mods, mod rules, and slightly different purposes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In addition, even if the communities are built around the same content, not every instance is the same. I explicitly avoid lemmy.ml because I've seen them ban people for criticizing China's government and discussing the genocide of the Uyghur people. As such, I appreciate having a lemmy.world variant of this community.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

What instance they're hosting on and who the management is.

That's it