this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2025
21 points (95.7% liked)
[Closed] Moved to !fedigrow@lemmy.zip
1584 readers
1 users here now
This community has moved to !fedigrow@lemmy.zip
Original sidebar info
To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks
Resources:
- https://lemmy-federate.com/ to federate your community to a lot of instances
- !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com to organize overall fediverse growth
- !reddit@lemmy.world to keep tabs on where new users might come from :)
- !newcommunities@lemmy.world
- !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
Megathreads:
- How (and when) to consolidate communities? (A guide)
- Where to request inactive or unmoderated communities? (A list)
Rules:
- Be respectful
- No bigotry
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
If they are similar, why not consolidate?
Because each instance and community had it's own rules. With custom feeds user can choose with communities he want to consolidate and separate them again if he want
What are the rules differences between !movies@lemmy.world and !movies@lemm.ee ?
!movies@lemmy.world allows shitposts/memes. It's a big deal to some people like me
!movies@lemm.ee does too: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/19486392
Ok my mistake but that is just one example. They may exists some two similar community with different rules. I constantly read people opinions on the fediverse selling point was about it being censorship resistant because you can switch to another instance
In those cases, the communities should not consolidate, and would not "follow each other" under Proposal 3.
So the solution may only reduce the duplications but not fix it completely. A lot of communities are already dead with no active admins
Better to not have to start over 100% if the main community is on a server that randomly disappears forever or turns sour and gets defederated.
Wouldn’t that go against decentralization?
Decentralization is being able to access the same content from different instances.
Duplicating communities is the opposite: now people can't see the same content, they have to follow all the similar communities
See, this compulsion needs to be killed off. Because no, they absolutely do not have to.
If a user wants to see all the activity on a given topic, they very much do have to.