So which one is actually official one? I can’t describe what “official” mean here, maybe the one that actually came from reddit or the one with more subsscribers or one with more activity ?

Also Why there are multiple copies of same community in different instances? Isn’t the whole point of lemmy is that it is federated?

There is also three linux4noob communities 🥲

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    I can’t describe what “official” mean here, maybe the one that actually came from reddit

    Official means nothing here my dude. The communities from reddit have exactly as much claim on legitimacy as one you founded 5 minutes ago.

    I just subscribe to everything that looks vaguely interesting, personally.

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    I don’t think “official” means much here, but the one on .ml has 4 times as many subscribers as the next one down, so probably go there.

    The whole point of Lemmy is to be federated, yes. That means anyone can set up the same community name on a different instance and be accessible to everyone. If it has more/better content or better moderation, it will survive. Maybe some people object to being on the .ml instance in the first place.

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      I agree. I was gonna join .ml and then noticed for some reason .world has more recent activity despite having less users. Maybe it’s just timing.

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        lemmy.ml is the ‘original’ instance. And i think the oldest by far. That’s why you’ll find the highest user counts there. But lots of people don’t like their moderation policies. And switched their engagement to other instances. I think that’s why you see lots of ‘nominal members’ in the lemmy.ml community, but the lemmy.world one is actually the more active one.

        YMMV. And some people also don’t like lemmy.world or so much centralization and also try to move away from lemmy.world so we’re not completely dependant on a single instance.

        I just search and browse for communities, click on all of them and see which ones are active and have nice posts and then I join those.

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          Thank You.

          I just search and browse for communities, click on all of them and see which ones are active and have nice posts and then I join those.

          looks like that what I have to do.

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    This is why we need federated comms.

    Each instance has a low-activity community under instance.tld/c/community. For most instances and most topics, this will mean checking a comm yields maybe a few new posts a week, and if you want to see all the content related to that topic, you’ll have to check every instance your server federates with individually.

    Having a single instance.tld/f/community that aggregates all the per-instance comms so there’s one topic-specific place with everything would be far more enjoyable of an experience.

    This functionality is probably the biggest benefit that could be facilitated by federation, since we already have federated post comments. Activity is high enough now that posts feel lively, and the main feed has enough interesting stuff, but the one thing that still feels lacking compared to reddit is being able to browse a sub and find a reasonable amount of fresh content if you haven’t checked back in the last week or so.

    Subscriptions are also far less useful if you have to manually find and subscribe to every instance’s comm with the same name. Being able to sub once to the federated comm and sub to all the instance comms would make the subscriptions feed go from my least used feed to my most used.

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      so there’s one topic-specific place with everything would be far more enjoyable of an experience

      That’s what I need.

      but the one thing that still feels lacking compared to reddit is being able to browse a sub and find a reasonable amount of fresh content

      This is exactly what I am talking about.