• Khaelas@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    But are these actually the same communities?

    Or do they count as separate ones on separate instances which uses created with that instance specific account?

    I think they’re 2 spearate communities? Which does confuse things.

    Although the link worked on Connect for the Lemmy one so that’s what I’ll be using anywau

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      1 year ago

      You mean for this specific case? Yes, they’re two separate communities which is why it was disadvantageous to create a community on both kbin and Lemmy—if they made just one, that one community could share subscribers and comments and such from all Lemmy instances (that aren’t defederated) as well as kbin. They didn’t need to make separate accidentalrenaissance communities but they did.

      I’m not a fan of the e-mail analogy overall, but here it works. It’s like they created a gmail account and an aol account, thinking only gmail accounts could email each other and only aol accounts could email each other. But really, if they made only a gmail account then both gmail and aol would be able to communicate easily.

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        1 year ago

        Maybe they went ahead and grabbed both, one will eventually become more popular and the popular one will stay running while they just have the other one directing people to the popular one.