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Question on the nuance of federation-- is there a reason to spin up a community locally in .ca if a really popular one already exists in another server? Would most people here just sync up to that other server and ignore the local one? I'm thinking we might want to avoid having 500 communities for everything
Coming from a reddit mindset where it was easier because you just had one community to think about
edit: by this I don't mean "can we" but rather what's best practice or what does the existing community tend to default to
if you are happy with the rules/moderation/whatever of the other community, then there really isn't any reason to create one here.
even in reddit there are multiple subreddits for the same thing, and new subreddits were created when the original one wasn't to their liking as well.
hope that helps!