Galaxyboy_3598

Difference between this Asklemmy and !asklemmy@lemmyml?

https://lemmy.world/post/1152972

Difference between this Asklemmy and !asklemmy@lemmyml? - Lemmy.world

This Asklemmy and [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] [https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy] appear to be identical in purpose yet are hosted on two different Lemmy’s. Do you guys have plans to merge into one?

Jul 7, 2023 at 8:32pmWeb
Show threadkaduJul 7, 2023

This is one unavoidable and actually desirable trait of Lemmy: the existence of one community in one server doesn’t stop you from creating a similar one elsewhere.

Perhaps some will decide to merge. Perhaps they won’t. Some might be badly moderated and users will avoid it, some might have great content.

Sometimes you’ll follow both because they’re both active and good. Sometimes there will be 10 different ones but one is clearly the dominant and most active and you’ll select that one.

This isn’t something you should worry about. Open the community, do you like it? Join in. Don’t like it? Don’t join.

Show threadInfiniWheelJul 7, 2023
Even in reddit you had multiple subs dedicated to basically the same thing. Like r/interestingasfuck and r/damnthatsinteresting, and all the memes subs
Show threadGalaxyboy_3598Jul 7, 2023

Thanks for the reply.

It’s just a change coming from reddit where there was only one r/askreddit and it was the dominant and active one as there couldn’t be another r/askreddit. I’m still adjusting to there being multiple Lemmy servers.

Show threadt0frJul 7, 2023

What instance they’re hosting on and who the management is.

That’s it

Show threadSkyNTPJul 7, 2023
Many different Lemmy servers have an announcements community, but just because they have similar naming doesn’t mean they serve the same purpose. The idea of //askreddit as a singular community identifier needs to die. If you like one asklemmy over the other subscribe to it and not the other and let your vote dictate which community is the true embodiment of //AskReddit. Or subscribe to both: no different than it would have been being subscribed to both /r/technology and /r/tech. Similar communities with different mods, mod rules, and slightly different purposes.
Show threadgk99Jul 7, 2023
In addition, even if the communities are built around the same content, not every instance is the same. I explicitly avoid lemmy.ml because I’ve seen them ban people for criticizing China’s government and discussing the genocide of the Uyghur people. As such, I appreciate having a lemmy.world variant of this community.