The content on all the communities seem different.

Why didn’t the “copycats” get the “this community name has already been taken” message?

It was bad enough at The Other Place finding one overlooked sub about one of your interests.

Now you have to find every single community in every single instance if you hope to talk about your topic?

I mean, look at this:

No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world

No Stupid Questions@kbin.social

No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca

No Stupid Questions@mander.xyz

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    1 year ago

    isn’t activitypub stuff basically open?
    so you could create or comission your own platform/ interface that can synthesize posts from all sorts of places and could even do things about duplicates?

    thats the benefir of the open source data model and apis - someone can probabledevlop the features you want - eventually.

    the current platforms probably all look a bit like pre existing forums / aggregators or social media . butthats just a starting pont, the future could be much weirder ways of compiling displaying and creating posts. and in theory it can all interoprate (within reason, and outwith federation blocks)

    i probably have no idea what i’m talking about though . . . i’ve certainly not even queried a single activitypub api personally