Ok I have a dumb question. Is Technology@beehaw.org supposed to have the same content as technology@lemmy.ml? Or are those two similarly names, but separate things with potentially differnt content?
They’re different communities with the same name, because community names don’t have to be unique between different instances. I get that subscribing to two different communities with the same theme is annoying when you could save time and subscribe to one, but having backup communities is a blessing when the instance shuts down or mods start power tripping. A “multireddit” feature that can combine multiple communities into one subscription feed would keep subscribing convenient without forcing only one community to exist per topic.
The first one shouldn’t be used as a directory. The second one, can be used.
The reason the first one can’t, is because it is just the search directory of one instance. Each instance knows/shows a community only AFTER some user has indexed it manually by putting the full url of that federated community in the search bar and submitted it. Only after this, does lemmy.directory will be able to show it.
The admin from lemmy.directory actually stated that his instance tries to fetch all communities from everywhere in order to build a directory, it’s not meant as an actual, general instance.
here are two sites I have been linked recently:
https://lemmy.directory/communities/listing_type/All/page/1
https://browse.feddit.de/
Ok I have a dumb question. Is Technology@beehaw.org supposed to have the same content as technology@lemmy.ml? Or are those two similarly names, but separate things with potentially differnt content?
They’re different communities with the same name, because community names don’t have to be unique between different instances. I get that subscribing to two different communities with the same theme is annoying when you could save time and subscribe to one, but having backup communities is a blessing when the instance shuts down or mods start power tripping. A “multireddit” feature that can combine multiple communities into one subscription feed would keep subscribing convenient without forcing only one community to exist per topic.
Thank you, this makes a lot of sense. Kinda what I figured, but wanted to make sure.
they are different communities with different content
this is one of the most confusing things about lemmy
I’m actually subscribed to both of these and will see if they both survive or if one of them becomes the ‘main’ tech community
They’re supposed to have the same content, but may have different moderation.
A great example - /r/gaming vs. /r/games on Reddit (or /r/truegaming). All basically the same thing, but they have different moderation styles.
Thanks, this is an analogy I realized last night after posting my question. Makes a lot of sense when out like that.
The first one shouldn’t be used as a directory. The second one, can be used.
The reason the first one can’t, is because it is just the search directory of one instance. Each instance knows/shows a community only AFTER some user has indexed it manually by putting the full url of that federated community in the search bar and submitted it. Only after this, does
lemmy.directorywill be able to show it.The admin from lemmy.directory actually stated that his instance tries to fetch all communities from everywhere in order to build a directory, it’s not meant as an actual, general instance.
Oh, ok, I didn’t know that this was the intended usage of that particular instance. Good to know.
yeah here was the post they linked me which explains the instance
https://lemmy.directory/post/34207