• @[email protected]
    3•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

    • @[email protected]
      18•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.

      • @[email protected]
        7•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.

      • @[email protected]
        3•1 year ago

        Mods can set a community so only mods can post in it. They can make that change and leave a message redirecting everyone to the other community to consolidate it.

    • @[email protected]
      2•1 year ago

      One mod team working on two communities. We may consolidate to one or the other at a later date.

      We were honestly afraid that either Lemmy or Kbin would self-destruct so we wanted to have one to fall back on and we weren’t happy with how either handled images.