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Blaze
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The title says "the 100 biggest Lemmy communities"
I guess the 2 communities are !ich_iel@feddit.org and !europe@feddit.org
I’d also love to see reposts that are detected automatically.
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The dev just submitted another build today
Very interesting, thanks!
Kind of upset because I don’t mind hopping accounts, but I had a magazine there, !otomegames@kbin.run. I had just started it new a few weeks ago, moving from its longer-lived iteration on kbin.social because I was unaware kbin.social was down. And now if debounced does not come back I’ll have to make yet another new version of the community. Does not set a good precedent, “will I have to put up with constant new versions to follow this community?” The most appropriate place would be ani.social but I’d also probably have to make yet another Lemmy alt to mod it properly—things like reports do not seem to federate properly unless your account is on the same instance as the community you mod. And I really do not want to give Lemmy more users at the expense of Mbin. Lemmy is already the big guy, and we want more diversity on the Fediverse. So I can probably just remake it on whatever Mbin instance I end up on.
Sorry for this, it was a nice community.
Oh indeed
Hello,
I'm actually happy to talk about LW centralization at large. It's a topic I like to discuss on !fedigrow@lemm.ee, feel free to join us there.
To come back to your questions, there are different types of communities depending on how popular the topic is
- very popular topics (tech, news, memes, politics) exist on Lemmy on a lot of different instances. !technology@lemmy.zip, !technology@lemmy.world, !technology@lemmy.ml, etc. They are all active, no need to worry about those.
- moderately popular topics: in this case, usually there is a large LW community, and then a smaller non-LW community. A mentioned "movies" above as an example, there is a whole list at the end of this post.
- low activity topics: here, there is only one community, and it's not that active. It is on LW, but the community is already so small that getting it active is a higher priority than bringing people to another instance. Examples: !football@lemmy.world, !parenting@lemmy.world, !television@lemmy.world, !avatar@lemmy.world
I feel like StarGate probably belongs in the third group, which is why I suggested you to consolidate with the existing LW communities.
Also, lemmy.ml have faced some powertripping complaints:
- https://reddthat.com/post/20166234
- followed by some people organizing to get communities off there too: https://reddthat.com/post/20197120
Extremely weird considering you run a generic fantasy community which already exists in many places so felt a little kettle/pot.
Interesting, I had actually forgotten about that community, which is why the last post there is 2 months ago. I'll probably close it in the coming weeks and redirect elsewhere, after asking the community feedback.
On the other hand, I actively post to all of the following communities, to try to keep them off LW
!fedigrow@lemm.ee is a community dedicated to this.
There also need to be tools to merge two communities on separate instances, or move them.
The issue is not the tools, more the people. I contacted mods of !android@lemmy.world and !askandroid@lemdro.id a while ago to see if they wanted to merge, both sides wanted to stay on their own communities.
There are plenty of other examples, usually a large LW community, but with a more active non-LW alternative. LW wants to keep their community open, and the non-LW doesn't have much power besides showing they are more active.
Seems a bit strange in terms of ownership, no?