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.

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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.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

This is it.

The games community in lemmy.world is a bunch of folks advertising their indie game or YouTube stream. Usually a few comments here and there.

The games community on lemmy.ml is a bunch of folks sharing gaming journalism. Pretty active.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I always thought the real gaming community was !games@sh.itjust.works

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's a way better community! Thanks for the recommendation!

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 3 points 5 months ago

You're welcome!

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