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Communities with the same name on different servers? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by SoCalChris@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/general_discussion@lemmy.fmhy.ml

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How do communities work across servers? For instance, I registered my account on server A, and create a community named MyCommunity on Server A. Someone who's registered on Server B can access MyCommunity by going to !MyCommunity@ServerA.

Now if someone else on Server B decides to create a community also called MyCommunity on Server B, I could access that by going to !MyCommunity@ServerB.

My question is, with the MyCommunity communities ever sync across Server A and Server B? Or will they remain completely separated since they're on different servers? Will things posted to !MyCommunity@ServerA ever show up for people that have only subscribed to !MyCommunity@ServerB, or are these kept completely separate?

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[–] kulta@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I agree, at least the top 100 communities need to be synced across all instances or something. It's not easy for someone to find content in their first hour here.

[–] Browning@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be nice if, when signing up to an instance, you are auto-subbed to a bunch of communities of that instance's choosing, even if not all of those communities are on that instance.

[–] kulta@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah there's a lot of work needed to make the new user's experience better.