• coderjewel@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hey so I see there’s a few different instances for TodayILearned, are they all considered unique? Like would it be /TodayILearned1 /TodayILearned2 and so on if they were on Reddit, separate communities? Or are community names unique throughout the fediverse?

    • klieg2323@lemmy.piperservers.net
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      1 year ago

      They are considered unique communities although they could cover the same topic. It’s a lot like an email address that way, you can have [email protected] and [email protected]. They are unique addresses, but they can have the same name before the at sign.

      Something i would like to see in future development is some sort of multi-reddit type feature to combine multiple similar communities into one grouping

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        1 year ago

        Interesting. Well I’m rooting for federated services so we can’t have the rugs pulled out from under us again by large corporations.

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      They are separate communities each on a different server. You will encounter a bunch of duplicate communities on various servers for the big topics (news, technology, gaming, etc.)

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        For now at least. I would imagine in time the duplicates may converge into one or the other.