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Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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