I understand that a user on any instance can subscribe to any community in the fediverse, but I have been a bit confused when searching for communities to join. Sometimes there are communities on different instances, with the exact same name.

  • Do these communities talk to each other at all, or are they completely separate, with a different host, posts, mods, subscribers etc.

  • Should I just join the largest (and presumably, most active) one?

  • Is there anything in place to discourage communities of same name, but different instances, from “competing”?

    • BlueÆther@no.lastname.nz
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      1 year ago

      But I don’t have a c/technology on my instance - and I don’t need one.

      A much more interesting thing about the fediverse is that !trees@no.lastname.nz and !trees@lemmy.world are both about “trees”, but one is about getting high and the other is about therapeutic uses of trees and shrooms.

      I wouldn’t what a “I didn’t tidy my room - because I got high” in a community about treating mental illness with plants