RadDevon

I'm guessing the user who created "/c/showerthoughts" named it "/c/showerthoughts". You're seeing the community names, and that one is named the same as the URL.

Oh, weird. What instance are you on?

No, communities are like subreddits. What you're talking about is an instance. It's like a whole other Reddit that can interact with all the other Reddits. If one Reddit starts misbehaving, the party's not over because we can all just migrate to another one.

Hey, nice! Happy Cake Day to you too!

I'm hoping they can get an "exit strategy" in place so that communities and users can move off instances that might have to go away for one reason or another. Seems like key functionality on the fediverse. It's been a really cool community so far though. Reminds me of the way early Digg and Reddit felt, before they hit critical mass.

I'm with you. I was shocked to see the little cake next to my name today. 😅

I haven't tried this, but maybe it would get the job done: Archive Your Reddit Data While You Still Can | xavd.id

An instance agnostic link for anyone not on lemmy.world: futurama @ lemmy.world

I'm digging the Old Web community.

It's the price I pay if I want to honor my FOMO. I can always pick one and live with potentially missing some things or not seeing comments from some community members who picked a different instance if I want to prioritize avoiding multiple threads instead. You'd get duplicate posts on a single subreddit anyway, so it doesn't seem that much different.

Here's one scenario where that idea doesn't work. I was subscribed to /r/pax on Reddit. Occasionally, people would wander through and post about their vapes or ecigs or whatever, not noticing that every post in the subreddit was about the Penny Arcade Expo and not about the ecig/vape brand. (Sorry. I don't know the difference between a vape and an e-cigarette, if there even is one. 😅)

All that to set up this question: what happens when a community is created on one Lemmy instance called "pax" referring to the Penny Arcade Expo while, on another instance, the first mover on "pax" is an e-cig/vape enthusiast? I subscribe for updates on the Penny Arcade Expo, and now, instead of an occasional misguided individual coming through posting about their nicotine enthusiasm, half or more of my posts on "pax" are about that?

My way of dealing with it is to subscribe to all instances of the community so I don't miss anything. If I feel ownership of the community, I would encourage others in the community to do the same.