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That is one unavoidable, and actually desirable, trait of Lemmy as a whole: the existence of one community in one server doesn't stop you from creating a similar one elsewhere.
Perhaps some will decide to merge. Perhaps they won't. Some might be badly moderated and users will avoid it, some might have great content and naturally attract people.
Sometimes you'll follow both because they're both active and good. Sometimes there will be 10 different ones but one is clearly the dominant and most active so you don't even bother with the others.
This isn't something you should worry about. Browse the community, do you like it? Join in. Don't like it? Don't join.
Even in reddit you had multiple subs dedicated to basically the same thing. Like r/interestingasfuck and r/damnthatsinteresting, and all the memes subs
Thanks for the reply.
It's just a change coming from reddit where there was only one r/askreddit and it was the dominant and active one as there couldn't be another r/askreddit. I'm still adjusting to there being multiple Lemmy servers.
There were like a brazillion Ask subs, what are you talking about? I was active on at least a dozen of them at one time or another.
There were/are a bunch of "Ask ____" subs, yes; I was subscribed to many of them. But there was only one r/AskReddit, which most closely aligns with the purpose of the two lemmy communities referenced in this post.