Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy

• Majorllama@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You make a good point. The key difference is that some instances block other instances (or at least that has been my understanding of how Lemmy works from my limited time here). So depending on where they sign up they might not even be able to access certain subs.

  Plus the “duplicate” subs on reddit tend to be one of two reasons. The original moderators let the sub die or enough people didn’t get along with how the original sub was being moderated and they left to make their own copy. It’s pretty rare that there are two identical subs that have equal engagement.

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  • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s pretty rare that there are two identical subs that have equal engagement.

    It’s rare here too

    !movies@lemm.ee hs 1400 monthly active users

    !movies@lemmy.world has 470

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    • CastorSulMush@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This is what I’m seeing so far. It seems very hard to find very active communities for various topics. Movies should be an easy one with broad appeal but even the ones you posted here are not that active.

      And the seemingly most active one for television is called !showsandmovies@lemm.ee Why does it have movies in its name when the header is Shows and TV? Confusing and it’s not even that active.

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    • Majorllama@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That still doesn’t address the fact that not all instances are created equal. And it’s not immediately apparent which instances block others.

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      • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I usually go with

        “Lemmy has 42k monthly active users

        • discuss.online if you want a server located in the USA (content is still accessible from any server, the most difference latency)
        • sopuli.xyz if you want a server located in the EU
        • vger.app if you want an app

        Feel free if you have any questions”

        That way people are pointed to two reliable instances.

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