Following the other thread (550 upvotes and 366 comments at the moment: https://lemmy.world/post/16211417), one of the complaints that people had what that some communities only exist on lemmy.ml and don't have alternatives on other instances.

Let's discuss this and see if we can organize together.

I suggest to have one topic per comment so that is is easier to discuss.

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[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (11 children)

I think the problem is not so much that "communities don't exist", but that they are far less popular and active than the lemmy.ml ones, and when presented with a choice new users will typically choose the community that is more active and has the most subs. You can't simply solve that by creating another community on another instance. A concerted effort would be needed to get people to move and to get them to pick the alternative community over the lemmy.ml one. Raising awareness and defederation by bigger instances (like lemmy.world) would help immensely.

For me the big ones are !linux@lemmy.ml and !programmerhumor@lemmy.ml btw, which do exist elsewhere but the alternatives are stale.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I posted to !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca about !linux@programming.dev

Someone else and I cross posted all of the content from !linux@lemmy.ml to !linux@programming.dev this morning.

I went to Reddit and HN to get content to that community too.

Is it really that stale?

On the other hand, I don't think defederation is necessary nor useful. Build rather than break.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hey I applaud your effort, yesterday the top post was several days old and top day was empty on one of the subs, so this is already better.

I'm a bit skeptical if that will be enough though. Active discussion is the meat and the potatoes for me when I go to a tech community, and for that you need more subscribers.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Subscribers come to active communities. Feel free to post there too.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When presented with a choice, people usually pick the community that is the most active and already has the most subs.

But I am definitely giving it a shot.

[–] fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Right, but when one of the communities has a reputation for authoritarian admins and mods dedicated to spreading propaganda it's a bit different.

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