@[email protected]

@[email protected] for [email protected]

Indeed, but the issue is when one third of the population is there

I know, but this question is asked in the specific context where posters are mostly alone on a community for several weeks / months, where the LW equivalent has much more potential.

Thanks for sharing your experience. I see your posts every day, impressive

Indeed, I use it from time to time, but from my experience, it seems like LW users tend to stay on their local feed, increasing the visibility of their local communities compared to ones from other instance

Any ideas for how to encourage mod communication?

I would just DM the other mods. Worked quite well for me

To be completely correct you will have to create a new account, but you can export and import your subscriptions and block lists from the new account to the new one in a few clicks

Now you understand 😄

They have a strange issue with their frontend, the instance is still running, and can be accessed using other front ends, but as you can see, not the best experience for a new joiner

Definitely, but I guess the amount of sysadmins wanting to operate a lemmy instance is limited. Add to that the CSAM and other nasty stuff that happened at the beginning, and only a few people would be okay to manage their own instance.

Also, even a topic-focused instance would suffer from the lack of population. How many interesting topic can you find for a population of 50k? That can’t be too precise, because you are talking to a very small population. Well, I guess that’s why db0 and slrpnk are doing well, piracy and solarpunk are popular among Lemmy users (as well as whatever the political stance of lemmy.ml is)

Definitely. I feel like every other week I stumble upon someone who doesn’t know they can switch instances in literally 3 clicks.

Indeed.

Ideally, avoid the top three or five. That will naturally lead to a healthier balance.

That’s probably good for Mastodon, but for Lemmy there isn’t so much choice. My rule of thumb, in order is

• lemm.ee
• sh.itjust.works if you are ok with the name
• discuss.tchncs.de or lemmy.ca depending if you are located in Europe or North America
• lemmy.zip as they are good contenders, but a bit smaller than the others

I see

encourage account migration to combat overcentralization

My gut feeling is that most of the people on LW are comfortable there, and wouldn’t see the point in decentralization. That happened in the past with the removal of privacy communities, or the fact that LW is still federated with Threads, still they have 18k MAU

I keep hearing about bad moderation, so I guess it’s indeed an issue.

It is really a compromise, there is no ideal situation. Should we initiate something and ask people to leave LW due to bad moderation? That would probably be seen as unnecessary drama.

No worries, I get what you mean.

Might it not be more beneficial for related communities to, in the way of the old web, highlight each other in pinned/featured posts and sidebars? The idea being that there’s still some benefit to different moderation styles and community cultures/vibes.

Indeed, we kind of have that in the sidebar of [email protected]

Maybe also encouraging community moderators to communicate with each other more to figure out how they want their communities to be, how they might want to differ to create more distinct identities?

I guess. As said elsewhere, cases such as [email protected] and [email protected] still seem weird to me

A post a day in a community is a bot, more often than not, and trying to create discussion on bot posts often just falls on deaf ears.

In this case, I’m pretty sure it’s not, it’s a mix between @[email protected], @[email protected], myself and a few others.

We had a nice discussion a few weeks ago about metal bands (https://dormi.zone/post/1721444)

organically support active communities wherever they’re found.

Makes sense

so you don’t see so many duplicate posts in your feed and all those individual discussions are instead in one place.

I guess at some points moderators of communities around a same topic will have to agree on where to host the community. The split between [email protected] and [email protected] still doesn’t make sense to me today.

Hello,

Thank you for your comment.

I agree with the fact that a story of post should only exist once, as you said. I guess the remaining question is what to do where there are two communities for the same topic.

I have a good example that I just stumbled upon: [email protected] is the most active community about maps, has usually one post per day every day for the last few months. Once in a while, someone posts on [email protected], and they instantly get a lot more comments than the first community.

[email protected] is also quite active, despite not being on LW.

Should we just give up with federation, and just aggregate all communities on LW?

I am usually trying to encourage people to host communities on other instances (recently moved [email protected] to [email protected], but sometimes it feels like fighting against the current.

What do you think?