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Not just that, but if I have a question about, say, Linux scripts, then I have to search fifty fucking communities names c/Linux in fifty fucking instances to find a solution.
Just because an instance has the biggest community doesn't mean it will have an answer. So I do have to look at fifty fucking instances.
I haven't seen a single viable argument that justifies this irritating and inconvenient situation except i LiKe fEdErAtIoN.
And for the federation fetishists, yes you can have federation AND one single c/Linux across instances.
If you don't want to read Linux tips from lemmy.naziLinuxUsers.com then just block that instance like you would block a nazi individual on reddit.
This problem is so ridiculously easy, but for some reason the mediocre status quo always has its ardent defenders.
Well said, I agree with this too.
Follow this train of thought... Would the web as a whole be better if there were one single website for Linux topics?
What is there to justify, and to whom? Nobody is forcing there to be multiple communities on the same topic, and if Linux users prefer a single community, nothing is stopping them from coalescing around the best one.
I get the discomfort some people might face dealing with seemingly duplicated communities, but the whole thing is such a non-issue, and is pretty much the way the democratic web has has been intended to work since forever.
Especially compared to the alternative... Some central authority who gets to shut down c/LinuxDevelopers because there is too much overlap with c/LinuxEnthusiasts? Why should there be one single Linux community and what do you propose to do if someone makes a their own slightly different flavor of Linux community?
I think, I hope that search engines could solve this?