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@communist people say federation is an issue when you get multiple communities on the same topic. There is the "technology" community on beehaw, there is also the "technology" community on lemmy.ml, then there are countless communities named the same on other servers as well. But I do not think federation is an issue. I know of at least one site that has the same issue with multiple communities with the same name. And it is centralized. And it has no issue with that.
It's name is facebook.com
This is not an issue with federation, centralized services like reddit have the exact same problem, it's just a problem with anything that lets anyone build a community, really.
I've been using lemmy for all of like, an hour, but discovering communities is kind of a pain. Wish there was an instance/community browser inside my instance instead of going to a third party site, searching, opening, copy, and then pasting, then subscribing.
I really see no reason why https://browse.feddit.de/ is not integrated into the site.
I just learnt about browse.feddit.de from your comment. Thank you.
Oh neat. I knew there had to be more comms than I was seeing.
Do you mean something other than https://beehaw.org/communities ? It has a local/all toggle and a search function. On the web interface, it's on the header of every page.
Yea. That will only show communities that members of beehaw are already subscribed to. And importantly, I’m not registered on that instance. That’s not the website I use.
@communist basically yes. And that would only be aleviated if only admins of a website would be allowed to create them. Which is a kind of hyper centralization not something many people would be fans of.
Yeah, but it has nothing to do with federation, so that's misinformation. And we wouldn't want it to be any other way, really.
@communist yep, exactly