Is it worthwhile to try to get mods to combine them? It just seems like a bit of a waste when trying to grow a community and its split in two.
Or is this what the fediverse is supposed to look like?
I read before somebody said that we might be able to combine similar communities at some point but don’t know if that’s true.
this gets asked a lot. Yes, the whole point of this platform is to be decentralized. Nothing stops you, or anyone, from following 5 different communities on the same topic. The advantages are many. Basically each instance will be able to mod with/apply different rules to their communities, they will attract different crowds (even if they overlap a lot) and they will have a different style. If one goes down, which is likely in these platforms, or if say an instance cannot be sustained anymore, or if one of the instances defederates your instance, or whatever- not all is lost. You still have all the other communities to follow.
there is a popular saying that goes, ‘‘don’t put all your eggs in the same basket’’.
Apologies if this is a repeat question. I’m not entirely sure if there is a way to search in Jerboa for similar posts but I don’t think there.
The search function should function the same way as the search function on the official web interface. That means however, unless you’re searching the url of a specific community, it can only search for communities, comments and posts on instances it has cached. If it hasn’t had a member visit a community at least once, it won’t know it exists.
I recommend browse.feddit.de to search for communities, and for newly created communities, you can search through the posts in [email protected]
There are many other places to look, you can find multiple lists of communities that migrated from Reddit with a quick google search.