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FOSS/Open Source Games Communities Consolidation (piefed.world)

submitted 1 week ago by Agent_Karyo@piefed.world to c/fedigrow@lemmy.zip

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Hey everyone,

We have two major FOSS/Open Source games communities:

!foss_gaming@lemmy.world
!OpenSourceGames@programming.dev

The first comm has a lot more subscribers (and more MAUs).

Seems like a perfect candidate for consolidation.

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[–] Skavau@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago

Consolidation in this context means closing one community and redirecting people to another to make one more active. The fediverse is small, and so having niche(r) communities combine into one is often beneficial for them.