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.

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    1 year ago

    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.

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      oh I didn’t mean it that way, no need to apologize. I just notice this question comes up a lot inside different communities, people often wonder why there are also two/three/N other communities and why don’t they all merge. It highlights a lot of people still expect things to be centralized even in a decentralized space. But, it’s good that you ask, so hopefully more people understand better why it’s good thing to avoid monopolies on topics.

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      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 !newcommunities@lemmy.world

      There are many other places to look, you can find multiple lists of communities that migrated from Reddit with a quick google search.

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        1 year ago

        Just saw that some apps do have a search function already. I’ve been using Jerboa and it doesn’t have one yet (for posts/comments that is).

        Thanks