I’m sure there are some good reasons, but I don’t know what those reasons are.
I’ve noticed that sometimes the instance of the community doesn’t match the instance of the user who posted there, and I was wondering why they chose to post to that community instead of an equivalent one on the instance they joined. Are there pros and cons to doing this?
Your instance has nothing to do with the communities you engage with. There is no reason to try to duplicate communities on each instance. The entire point of federation is that we all get to talk to one another.
Your scenario would be like only emailing people with .Hotmail accounts.
I’m not trying to make any argument either way, I’m just curious why people made the choices they did. For example, I saw someone from
lemmy.worldposted onprogrammer_humor@programming.deveven thoughprogrammerhumor@lemmy.worldalso exists. I’m wondering how they chose the first option over the second.Usually, activity: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=programmer
The programming.dev has 3.6k weekly active users, the LW one has 84