I’m the most active postee there (hello again). I prefer LW’s gaming community for a few reasons, a lot of which are kind of petty but still.
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I dislike the shitjustworks domain name, I think it’ll hamper community growth when a casual user base joins and thinks it’s a dumb name
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The people there often mirror /r/games posts, there’s nothing wrong with that and I enjoy browsing it, but I enjoy the more quality over quantity of LW’s community
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games@lemmy.world has clean icons and branding which is cool
But mostly it’s just reluctance to move away from the largest gaming community in Lemmy. Content is hard to find, and I talked about this many times, leaving LW communities means splitting the userbase even more and wondering where the content is. If having a large instance causes technical issues, that’s more of Lemmy’s problem IMO.
Dremor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m only a moderator, that’s not a decision I’d be taking alone.
Problem is that a community as broad as a gaming one is bound to be subscribed my many user on many instances. Switching it to another one will only move the problem elsewhere, not fix it.
Still, if that’s a problem, we could research other courses of actions, like dividing LW in multiple sub-instances for broad topics. The idea would be to get all gaming related community on “games.lemmy.world”, and getting most games related communities to switch there, so external instances can subscribe to that specific instance without receiving all the other updates from other communities. That would also make it a lot easier to scale the servers to the right size for the right use.
But once again that’s not my decision to take.
Blaze@feddit.org 2 months ago
Is it? I always feel like for every topic the schema is
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That does not automatically mean that the LW community is “too full”, just that some users want to use other instances as well
There was a while ago the example of !mapporn@lemmy.world vs !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
As the sopuli community was more active, the LW admins closed down the LW one to focus all the activity on a single community
Seems very close to just hosting communities on other instances? From your message, I feel like people on LW want to keep communities on “LW instances”, I’m wondering why. Is it due to distrust with other instances? Lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works and lemmy.zip have been around as long as LW, have transparent financial reports and high availability times.