Lemmy tends to have duplicate communities between different instances for many subjects, and this can make it hard to find information here. For instance, if i want to know if anyone has made a constructed language for birds, i have to go to the communities list and search for “conlang” and “constructed language”, open every relevant community i find, and search each of those.

The Lemmy search feature quite good, but having all the knowledge about one topic on one community makes it even better

There is a GitHub issue, but no planned deadline: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

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[–] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

While I mostly agree, the duplication of shared links is definitely a problem that is frustrating once you have a setup you like and follow a few similar communities.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, having a dead community isn't that big of an issue per se. The worse case is probably when there are two similar communities with the same links posted on both sides.

[–] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

Definitely the biggest issue that I face. Managable, but frustrating at times.