Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas

• 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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    • 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.

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      • Blaze@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Locking a community still allows people to comment under the pinned post, so if there’s any interest to revive that community it can be done that way

        At the moment we have a few famous examples

        • !android@lemdro.id vs !android@lemmy.world
        • !movies@piefed.social vs !movies@lemmy.world
        • !privacy@programming.dev , !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com and !privacy@lemmy.world
        • !buyeuropean@feddit.uk vs !buyfromeu@feddit.org vs !BuyFromEU@europe.pub

        All of those communities have similar rules, there’s nothing distinguishing them (!privacy@lemmy.ml for instance is different) except that mods never bothered to agree on a single place

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