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New to VLemmy, and Lemmy, trying to understand about federation. For example if I search for postgresql in https://browse.feddit.de/ I see only one answer.. Using that to subscribe, but if I search for FreeBSD there is one answer from lemmy.ml and one from lemmy.world.
Does it matter which URL I use?
That means that there are 2 separate communities, one on lemmy.ml and one on lemmy.world. You can choose to join either or both. They will have separate admins and are hosted on their respective servers.
Is there something that can be done to avoid this. I think it's not fruitful to have multiple communitiies over one topic. I have noticed seeing multiple small communities with the same or almost same name when I have searched some other things
Yeah it is an issue and it is encouraged that you join an already existing group. Over time it think it will balance out and the default groups will become prominent.
One thing that could help is that if a powerful search like https://browse.feddit.de/ was embedded into the community searcher or into the page where one is creating community. They would be notified and showed a community that looks similar and asked if that community is what one is looking for, similarly like on some forums when creating a new thread.
devs are discussing a search implementation similar to this in upcoming updates, though im not sure how long this will take.