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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?
Yeah, it's federated, meaning you can subscribe to each of them and post to whichever one you fancy. If you want to post to multiple, it's a good idea to use the cross-post feature.
Having only one singular official community would be rather bad, as then the respective server owners and moderators would have central control like on Reddit.
But won't it be a good thing to create another community after an already existing community gone bad instead having multiple at the same time?
Also won't there will be an fragmentation of users issue? Won't it lead to not a single community grows big because it's users are scattered across different instances?
imagine if they had waited to invent lemmy until after reddit had shat the bed with the whole API fiasco. it's better to have a backup ready to go.
I'm not saying don't create lemmy community when subreddit exist.
I'm saying don't create lemmy community when another lemmy community for the same purpose already exists on different instance without a good reason.