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ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’ve run into issues where information I want access to just doesn’t exist anymore because of the Reddit fiasco. The people that did that were a small minority of Reddit, and Reddit as a whole was basically unaffected by the protest after it was quashed.

Imagine the type of chaos it would cause if it came out that the LW admins were getting a corporate kickback to destabilize the Fediverse, or that they were involved in some other equally shady enterprise. It would probably be the end of the Fediverse, either through the created schisms or the lack of will to stop them. It would at least cause massive instability and make us look bad to users who would otherwise think of joining. A lot of information would probably be lost as people tried to push back. I’m sure a lot of people just wouldn’t have the willpower to move their communities elsewhere and there would be a significant number of people supporting the admins’ actions through apathetic inaction.

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Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Imagine the type of chaos it would cause if it came out that the LW admins were getting a corporate kickback to destabilize the Fediverse, or that they were involved in some other equally shady enterprise. It would probably be the end of the Fediverse, either through the created schisms or the lack of will to stop the corporate meddling

I agree that LW centralization isn’t good, but I’m not sure such event would be the end of the Fediverse, or Lemmy.

People would just massively move to other instances. LW communities usually have a non-LW non-lemm.ml alternative (such as !movies@lemm.ee for !movies@lemmy.world ), so that should be doable. A bit painful, but manageable.

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- Cataphract@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Imagine my surprise to see you in here talking about LW centralization isn’t good. You came onto a support question for a community I had started with one of my concerns being the LW centralization and you quickly told me to abandon my community. Extremely weird considering you run a generic fantasy community which already exists in many places so felt a little kettle/pot.
  
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  - Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Hello,
    
    I’m actually happy to talk about LW centralization at large. It’s a topic I like to discuss on !fedigrow@lemm.ee, feel free to join us there.
    
    To come back to your questions, there are different types of communities depending on how popular the topic is
    
    very popular topics (tech, news, memes, politics) exist on Lemmy on a lot of different instances. !technology@lemmy.zip, !technology@lemmy.world, !technology@lemmy.ml, etc. They are all active, no need to worry about those.
    
    moderately popular topics: in this case, usually there is a large LW community, and then a smaller non-LW community. A mentioned “movies” above as an example, there is a whole list at the end of this post.
    
    low activity topics: here, there is only one community, and it’s not that active. It is on LW, but the community is already so small that getting it active is a higher priority than bringing people to another instance. Examples: !football@lemmy.world, !parenting@lemmy.world, !television@lemmy.world, !avatar@lemmy.world
    
    I feel like StarGate probably belongs in the third group, which is why I suggested you to consolidate with the existing LW communities.
    
    Also, lemmy.ml have faced some powertripping complaints:
    
    reddthat.com/post/20166234
    
    followed by some people organizing to get communities off there too: reddthat.com/post/20197120
    
    Extremely weird considering you run a generic fantasy community which already exists in many places so felt a little kettle/pot.
    
    Interesting, I had actually forgotten about that community, which is why the last post there is 2 months ago. I’ll probably close it in the coming weeks and redirect elsewhere, after asking the community feedback.
    
    On the other hand, I actively post to all of the following communities, to try to keep them off LW
    
    !movies@lemm.ee
    
    !interestingasfuck@lemm.ee
    
    !casualconversation@lemm.ee
    
    !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
    
    !dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz
    
    !imaginary@reddthat.com
    
    !android@lemdro.id
    
    !linux@programming.dev
    
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    Cataphract@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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