The content on all the communities seem different.

Why didn’t the “copycats” get the “this community name has already been taken” message?

It was bad enough at The Other Place finding one overlooked sub about one of your interests.

Now you have to find every single community in every single instance if you hope to talk about your topic?

I mean, look at this:

No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world

No Stupid Questions@kbin.social

No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca

No Stupid Questions@mander.xyz

    • Kichae@kbin.social
      11·
      1 year ago

      the prevention of multiple separate communities having the exact same name is convenient and simple

      Except for when those communities have names that aren’t intuitive in any way, or the intuitively named communities are full of off-topic content.

        • Kichae@kbin.social
          7·
          1 year ago

          And you can’t see content from Facebook on Reddit, or from Twitter on Instagram.

          The part that’s unintuitive is that you can see content from users on lemmy.world or lemmy.ml.

          • Rhaedas@kbin.social
            3·
            1 year ago

            Even doing this for a month now I still forget that a lot and treat posts like Reddit posts. Being a Kbin user, I have to constantly stop myself from replying to questions about Lemmy and app suggestions for features that I already have thanks to script mods. And that’s even with mods that highlight the post isn’t from Kbin!