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Nice :) but why not [email protected]? I'd prefer for LW to not grow too big. And the PD community is already well established
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When I first looked all the gamedev communities seemed kinda dead, and none really stuck out, so I went with the server I was a part of. Later someone pointed out that PD was still alive and kicking to me after I already started posting to LW. I just kept posting to LW because I could ban any spam or jerks if the community ever decides that becomes a problem. But after I realized it wasn't dead I followed it too, and have cross-posted once or twice from it. I'd encourage people to follow both. That just means more options and seems even healthier to me.
I'm with Blaze here, splintering is ill advised at the current number of MAUs and on top of that this kind of themed community seems perfect for the specialized instance programming.dev. If that community has a problem with moderation you can always get in touch with the instance admins. If the moderators of [email protected] are absent control of the community can be handed over.
Having parallel similar communities is usually not recommended as it splinters conversation and give potential posters choice overload https://lawsofux.com/choice-overload/
[email protected] has regular posts about people consolidating to avoid "shouting into the void" on their own, the most recent example being [email protected] and [email protected]
A big problem here is also lemmy.world, too. I heavily dislike adding more communities, thus centralizing more to it; programming.dev was fine, imo 🙂