Didn’t think about it before, but saw this thread: https://lemmy.world/post/26747873
Lemmy tends to have duplicate communities between different instances for many subjects, and this can make it hard to find information here. For instance, if i want to know if anyone has made a constructed language for birds, i have to go to the communities list and search for “conlang” and “constructed language”, open every relevant community i find, and search each of those.
The Lemmy search feature quite good, but having all the knowledge about one topic on one community makes it even better
There is a GitHub issue, but no planned deadline: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818
Yes, having a dead community isn’t that big of an issue per se. The worse case is probably when there are two similar communities with the same links posted on both sides.
Definitely the biggest issue that I face. Managable, but frustrating at times.