Comment on Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks agoHello,
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
Cataphract@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
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