So I think I’ve spotted a problem with how Lemmy’s federation actually works. I can give you several examples, but I’ve spotted that there are several ‘Technology’ communities that originate on different servers. They’re definitely different ‘communities’ because they have quite dissimilar subscriber numbers. That’s potentially going to cause a lot of confusion going forward - I really don’t want to have to subscribe to two or three of everything…
Something I just noted. I have no clue as to whether this is a feature or a bug but some communities are duplicated across different servers - there are several ‘Technology’ for example, and I’ve seen some others - they’re clearly not just mirrors or something because the subscriber numbers are wildly different.
As I understand it the Lemmy rules state that you’re supposed to check before you create a community, but clearly if you originate it on a different server to the existing one that duplication is allowed. I only mention it because its probably worth keeping an eye out for other ‘Freemasonry’ communities popping up, so we can let them know that this one already exists…
It’s a bit worse than that actually. I’m now seeing several communities with exactly the same name that originate on different servers - so clearly Lemmy doesn’t have a rule about duplication once you cross a server boundary. That’s going to get unwieldy quite fast particularly if, I dunno, “Aww” gets popular on two separate servers at the same time - I guess I’ll have to subscribe to both…