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PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Yeah because first of all, content had to be spread out across 562826 different communities for no reason other than that reddit had lots of communities, after growing for many many years. It started with just a few.

Then 99% of those were created on Lemmy.world, and every new user was directed to sign up at Lemmy.world.

I guess a lot of people here are younger than me and didn’t experience forums, but we had like 30 forum channels. That was enough to talk about anything at all. And I believe it’s the same here, it would have been enough. And then all channels would have easy to find content.

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Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
this makes me think we should have a marker for communities that are inactive/dead or an easy way to hide them or filter them out in favor of more active communities

github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/3174

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- Blaze@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  They should just be locked down until we have a bigger userbase
  
  The topic comes up regularly on !fedigrow@lemmy.zip
  
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  - lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    If they are locked, the people who come here and see them locked will go elsewhere instead of contributing, because they literally can’t.
    
    Some people came here to creat communities (eg.: in the wake of Reddit stuff) with the hope that it would catch on. But we can’t expect them to do all the work.
    
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    Blaze@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Locked with a pinned post to a more active community lemmy.sdf.org/post/39199203
    
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Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

for no reason other than that reddit had lots of communities

Yea, looking back we probably should’ve had limits on creating communities. We all created too many lol

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