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No Stupid Questions

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The content on all the communities seem different.

Why didn't the "copycats" get the "this community name has already been taken" message?

It was bad enough at The Other Place finding one overlooked sub about one of your interests.

Now you have to find every single community in every single instance if you hope to talk about your topic?

I mean, look at this:

No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world

No Stupid Questions@kbin.social

No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca

No Stupid Questions@mander.xyz

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[–] Chadarius@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Subscribe to all of them and enjoy.

[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For real? I didn't know this is how it worked. I don't even know how to find those other instances. Do they just come up automagically or do you have to specifically search under those other instances?

This is bad.

[–] spacedancer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Federation works a little differently. Having said that, it's not too far from reddit either. For example on reddit, as a basketball fan, I visit r/nba often. But then there are also other subs like r/nbadiscussion, r/nbatalk, and other subs that have overlapping content as r/nba. That's the same case here, except they are on different instances rather than subreddits. You can do the same as what you do on reddit and subscribe to the most popular instance community and that's it. Eventually as time goes by, the most popular community will become the "default" so you won't really miss out on content. If you really have FOMO, then subscribe to all of them; same as what you would do on reddit; but obviously you don't do that right?

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I mean you can, but there are instances I don't want to be federated with because of some of the content they host (which is moot for this discussion and I'm not thinking enough into whether they're any of these four). In those cases, I wouldn't want to subscribe to those specific communities. Kind of a guilt by association thing. Shitty, but it's how the system works.

[–] hamsteronvase@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

"That's the way of the world" is usually said by Ayn Rand types who don't care about anyone else or know how to make things better.

Also, they paint the questioner as some nutter obsessed with finding every single byte about a topic.

And, no one is "stuck" on anything, we notice a defect and want to find a solution.

So think about this. Suppose you're making a community for, say, Ukrainians who have taken refuge in the USA.

What kind of person shrugs off their need to find each other and says "Suck it up buttercup". Or makes fun of them for asking.

Yes, there are inconvenient and irritating ways of handling the problem. Shrugging it off just tells me what kind of person you are, but it doesn't improve anything.

Now, what we could do - crazy, I know, hear me out - is think of a way to conglomerate all the content from diverse instances with different policies into one community where anyone can hear everyone else.

Two kinds of people in this world. The ones who start asking mocking questions, and those who put their heads together.

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[–] Kichae@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Why would you have to do that? I doubt you read every post on the Reddit subreddit, so you don't have to try to read every one here.

[–] blazera@kbin.social -2 points 1 year ago

Now you have to find every single community in every single instance if you hope to talk about your topic?

no

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