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this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
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The fragmentation is not inherent to how Lemmy works - the exact same fragmentation can and does happen on Reddit. Just a random example: https://imgur.com/inXBMMA
On Reddit, it usually works out in the end in one way or another. Either mods decide to team up and combine their communities, or the users just naturally pick one community as the "winner".
things are better on reddit because only a single community can have one name vs on lemmy where every server can have the same community name - but the end result should be the same in both cases.
I think people will eventually get used to the idea that the name of a community is not just the part before the "@".
I mean, even regular people have no difficulty understanding that e-mail addresses like bob@google.com and bob@microsoft.com are two different "identifiers" and, most likely, two completely different people. Given a bit of time, I think there will be a general understanding that "!foo@lemmy.ml" and "!foo@beehaw.org" are different names.