I don’t get it. Without any sort of posting guidelines, how is this any different than asklemmy? Both communities come from subreddits but over there, Askreddit was for general/public opinion questions and nostupidquestions was for questions you feel stupid for not knowing the answer to. Over here, both posts are acceptable. And this one seems to get way more vague “what do you think about X?” posts.
So what’s the point? Why have two separate communities on the same instance for the same thing? Most posts here are, frankly, stupid questions. The post that inspired this question was the one about Harambe. Come on lol
Community overlap has existed as long as the ability to create communities has. There’s no answer you’re going to get that will satisfy you in regards to your question like “Oh, you don’t have to be helpful when answering in !asklemmy”.
It’s not overlap, though. There are basically no posting rules here which makes it functionally identical. We took the subreddit name but not the rules that made it a good subreddit.
The best communities are the ones with guidelines. There is no such thing here so it’s just asklemmy2 which is… disappointing.