Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 week agothis 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
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
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.
Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Locked with a pinned post to a more active community lemmy.sdf.org/post/39199203
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
My usual concern with force redirecting people to “where the stuff is popular” is that it promotes centralization, which is the literal opposite of why we’re here. Besides, as I’ve commented some other times, the feasibility of user participation is not transitive across instances. !soccer@sports.xyz might have a completely different rules, mood or culture than !soccer@euro.pe , or the redirect might lead to !soccer@ya.ml which is blocked in my country or otherwise made unavailable. (I am using examples here ofc but I guess this could very well hit people in and around feddit.uk, for one).
There is literally no punishment for keeping a community open so it can sometime either grow organically or die organically. Locking them however, fully prevents either option.