I mod and post at [email protected].
There is also [email protected], it has much more subs (~5K), but a lot less engagement. The ML community’s mod also seems to have deleted their account?
I am not acquainted with the process for community consolidation and I am not sure if ML takes part in such initiatives. Do I need to reach out to the ML admins? What would be the next step if I wanted to propose [email protected] to be merged into [email protected] ?
No, considering how small the fediverse is, it needs to be more active. And you get that by having 20 users in 1 place rather than 10 over here, and 10 over there.
When the fediverse gets to a point where Lemmy has hundreds of millions of users, THEN it’ll have the life force to support duplicate communities.
On that topic, there’s this thread that can interest you: https://lemmy.world/post/26618223
Man this does not make you look good. Like, they told you to stop.
I don’t agree with their perspective on this, and I think we should in general be trying to consolidate communities right now, but if the mods told you to stop, you should have laid off it for a while at least.
I’m a mod here. If I were to tell you to stop commenting here “because the mod team decided so”, how would you react? That’s the whole point of [email protected] , to call out power tripping mods
You don’t need hundreds of millions of users, though. You only need a few dozen users active in each community to make them worth while. A couple of hundred makes them downright vibrant.
Reddit-like communities with hundreds of thousands of users are a waste, and become nearly impossible to moderate effectively.
A few dozen active posters is a lot by Lemmy standards. Popular topics like [email protected] have less than 10.