It’s interesting how this issue is new (in my experience) to the Fediverse with Lemmy. With Mastodon you essentially have this uniqueness functionality built in. Because a person isn’t likely to post content to multiple accounts under the same persona. Instead someone will choose their instance and username and that’s where you can find them. Sure a user might have multiple accounts but I think usually it’s to separate multiple online personas.
I think there is use in having same named communities in Lemmy on different servers because they could be for different purposes.
But I can see multiple duplicate communities with the same purpose being on different servers causing fragmentation. Maybe we’ll end up with popularity wars and eventually one duplicate community will give way to the other?
Ahhh, very good. Excellent loop hole. It’s possible spez will still try and force pics back to it’s former popularity but this does follow his rules …