The content on all the communities seem different.

Why didn’t the “copycats” get the “this community name has already been taken” message?

It was bad enough at The Other Place finding one overlooked sub about one of your interests.

Now you have to find every single community in every single instance if you hope to talk about your topic?

I mean, look at this:

No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world

No Stupid Questions@kbin.social

No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca

No Stupid Questions@mander.xyz

  • Zyansheep@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    There are multiple communities because these are all different servers, which don’t coordinate community names with each other.

    There are some feature proposals on the lemny issue tracker that try to address this issue in different ways…