So I’m assuming the duplicate communities are communities of the same exact name in different instances/server. Is anyone else finding this somewhat confusing?

Is there a way to find/pick the “right” one, or should it just be based on whichever has the most users?

New to Fediverse (here and Mastodon), still trying to wrap my head around the whole thing.

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    I think this is kind of a larger problem with the fediverse, and ultimately why it won’t displace Reddit.

    If I subscribe to a community called music, as a user I expect to see all posts from the fediverse. Instead what we get is posts from a specific instance. Duplicate isolated communities is not user friendly.

    Fediverse atm just feels like a complicated reinvention of forums.

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      the same is true with reddit. They may not have the exact same name, but how many music subreddits are there? I follow at least 5 or 6 on reddit, but there are thousands, many of which compete for the same or sim genres or ideas, but a few tend to be the one people gravitate too and so be it.

      I run Alternative Nation here !alternativenation@lemmy.world but on reddit here are 3 of many options, but clearly on reddit indieheads got the users.

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        I suppose the confusion is because duplicate Lemmy communities across instances can haver the same name. Perhaps a solution to this would be to more prominently show the instance name alongside the community name.

        I imagine we will get situations in the future where multiple same name communities gain traction, but may have different vibes. If it was easier to tell apart c/foobar on InstanceA from c/foobar on InstanceB on each part of the Lemmy interface it would be less confusing.

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          They don’t technically have the same name. The full name will be something like “music@kbin.whatever” or “music@lemmy.somethingorother”. The problem is whatever interface op is using isn’t showing the full community name which includes which instance it’s on.

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        whoohoo - subscribed.
        Now I have to dig out my college radio mixtapes I made in 1988. They’re around here somewhere

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        The same is not true of Reddit.

        If I subscribe to /r/music, I see all post.

        If I as a user subscribe to /c/music on Lemmy.world, I get only posts from lemmy.world.

        These two are completely different, and that’s why it is going to struggle.

        https://lemmy.world/c/music https://sh.itjust.works/c/music

        If we can’t simplify this problem, the platform will struggle to gain serious ground.

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          On reddit though, there are thousand of music communities. How did you know which was the right one? Subscriber count.

          it’s okay though, it’s early days, pretty sure some communities in some instances will be the main one. You’ll see the user counts and active users to help guide you. And maybe there WILL be two mains for the same topic - is that bad? If 2 general music communities both have huge active users, just subscribe to both! easy peasy!

          I’ve subscribed to a few dupes here, it’s all gravy. And I’m doing my best to nurture an alternative music community. =)

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          This is exactly like Reddit. On Reddit, if you subscribed to “gaming”, you would not also see posts from “games.” You would have to subscribe to both to see posts from both. If you want to see posts from music@lemmy.world, but also from music communities on other instances, you would subscribe to both.

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        yes, but if there’s 7 of them on 7 different instances it’s a challenge to make sense of it all.