I thought I might give Lemmy a tried as I want to not use Reddit as much and feel bad every time I do, even if it searching an problem I have and Reddit post is the top result.
Might be overthinking it but does community with same name but on different instances matter? I remember feeling little overwhelmed seeing few gaming communities but of course are on different instances and not sure if one is better or if joining them all is okay or just better to join in one. I wasn’t sure if they would have different rule-set or how they deal with moderation as each would be a different moderation team I assume.
I have used Mastodon and Misskey forks for couple years but I hadn’t use Lemmy as much and still a noob with it. Sorry if this has been asked loads of times, I just want an answer so I stop overthinking so much where I stop using it
it does matter. they are technically managed by their local isntance, and do not share content. usually one will become ‘popular’ until the mods shit themselves, and everyone moves to a different instance. its one of the benefits of the 'verse
on some platforms, like my mbin instance links shared between communities are aggregated so you can view which one is getting the most activity
Just to add, some lemmy apps (eg. Thunder) also do a similar aggregation.