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How does federation work with the "subreddit" model? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 years ago by mounderfod@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hi, I'm new here, so sorry if this has been asked before.

I understand that Lemmy is supposed to be like a decentralised Reddit, but I've got a question about this; on Reddit, there is only one server, with subreddits on it, so there is only one r/Music, only one r/AskReddit, etc.

However, on Lemmy there are many servers; would this lead to a situation where many servers have repeats of the same popular communities or does this not happen in practice? Is there a good way for me to find communities across all federated instances? Thanks :)

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[–] Cougar@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It is possible, but it's really no different than having two competing or complimentary subreddits.

From a users perspective you can subscribe to both !technology@lemmy.ml and !technology!technology@beehaw.org

And interact with them regardless of your own home instance.

[–] mounderfod@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 years ago

That is a good point, I hadn't thought of the fact that Reddit has similar scenarios, thanks for the quick response :)