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What are you guys doing when there's multiple communities for the same thing across instances? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For example, I want to join a Today I learned community but when I search for it, I come across 4 of them on different instances.

What do you guys do when you see this? Join the one with the most users, join all of them?

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

I’ve been joining all of them. I might pare down if I need to at some point, but I want to try to catch all the discussion on a topic.

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

Join them all, for now. I think Lemmy desperately needs a mechanism for “meta communities” or something so you can view a merged feed of say “gaming@everywhere” instead of separately seeing “gaming@beehaw” versus “gaming@lemmyworld” …