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I'm trying to understand it still. I understand you can visit communities from any other instance, but are communities shared between them? I mean, if there's an r/NFL in lemmy.world, can lemmy.ml also contain an r/NFL and would those two be two different things?
Have a look at this post, which will help you find some communities to join: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/61827
In short...
lemmy.world.community(aka subreddit) also has a home instance. The home instance for this community happens to be also belemmy.world, same as our accounts.lemmy.worldfederates with.So while it's possible for multiple instances to have an
nflcommunity, it's not necessary since you can sub to the NFL community on another instance and that's totally normal and expected. Think of it as the subreddits name includes its instance name, so[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])is just a different subreddit than[[email protected]](/c/[email protected]), just like on Reddit you could have competing subs named/r/nfland/r/nflfootball. And just like reddit, when things start to calm down, I think you will see that in cases where a bunch of dupe subs exist... one or two with active mods start to dominate on user count and those end up being the most interesting. It will be a bit wild west for a while though. Lemmy is a lot smaller than reddit, though, when I find dupes of a topic I care about, my strategy had been to subscribe to them all and I'll cancel the ones that flopped a few months from now when it's clear what is active and what's dead.Thanks for the link, that clears things up. I'm looking forward for everything settling down a bit, but I will admit the new experience is exciting. I like your idea of just subscribing to interesting stuff and manage it later, I'll start doing that so thanks for the tip as well!