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What are you guys doing when there's multiple communities for the same thing across instances? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by GingeyBook@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example, I want to join a Today I learned community but when I search for it, I come across 4 of them on different instances.

What do you guys do when you see this? Join the one with the most users, join all of them?

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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I just subscribe to all of them. And I feel it's worth pointing out that this was a thing on Reddit too. I often saw the same post on two or three different subreddits I was subscribed to. Eg. I was subscribed to both CanadaPolitics and Ontario, so Ontario politics stuff often appeared twice. Three times if it was local Ottawa news that made provincial and national headlines.