Yup, this one seems like a no-brainer: [email protected]
- Has an active mod
- Is not on LW or ml
- Has a great name
We don't often get all three.
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2024
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Yeah, I vote fatherverse, not only for the active mod but it has the best name.
Consolidating communities defeats part of the purpose of federation and decentralization.
Having the community on an instance other than lemmy.world and lemmy.ml is decentralizing.
The other parameter is that with 50k monthly active users, there is only so much activity on a specific topic.
Having it spread over 7 communities kills activity rather than keeping 1 community alive.
Encourage cross posting. The function is viable, and when it's used, it not only improves each community individually, it keeps awareness of other options.
The only thing "killing activity" is people nodding being unaware of cross posting existing and/or using it.
Crossposts don't aggregate comments. If you ask "How was your father's day" on 7 dad communities, you are going to split the answers across the 7 communities.
Comments don't need aggregation.
Look, we obviously have a difference in philosophy of the fediverse here.
So, let me back up a second and explain that.
The fediverse should be about communities being disparate. No single instance, no single mod or admin owning an idea, or the consequent community that forms around an idea. Part of why reddit became so horrible was the inability to have a viable alternative community around a subject when one went off the rails because someone had total control over a word, like "parenting", or "knives" or "gaming".
The more you consolidate communities, the more you give fewer entities control of a idea/concept/subject.
Comment aggregation is nice, if all you want is a single feed to scroll through, but the price of it is too high.