Lemmy hasn't really gotten over the fragmentation of communities. There are multiple gaming subs, some have double digit users, some have thousands. That shit needs to be consolidated.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 5 points 10 months ago

It's happening.

!mapporn@lemmy.world got locked to consolidate people to !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

We discuss this in !fedigrow@lemm.ee, if that's something that interests you

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Reddit is like that too though, games, gaming, videogames, gamers, pcgaming, etc.

[–] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

True, but Lemmy doesn't have the number of users needed to populate so many subs.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, some of those are fragmented for a reason. Like, !gaming@beehaw.org is pretty decent, but beehaw.org has a low bar for defederating from other instances, and has defederated from lemmy.world, which is the largest Lemmy instance, so anyone using lemmy.world as their home instance can't use that community.

Beehaw.org's not gonna refederate due to the split -- that was intentional. The people on !gaming@beehaw.org aren't gonna shut down their community, because they can't use !games@lemmy.world. Ditto for lemmy.world people on !games@lemmy.world; they can't use !gaming@beehaw.org.

I subscribe to and enjoy both communities.

[–] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What was the drama there?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 10 months ago

I don't know the specifics.