this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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I think critical mass is needed for certain communities, and user splitting is bad for that.
In the early days during growth, yes I think you’re right. Adds to the frustration of people learning about federation and all that to.
Which gets to what we as the actual community members here can do to help in these early phases … share and collect information about what communities are gaining traction and which people should join.
For instance, there are two NBA communities I’m aware of, one on lemmy.ml, which is rather old, and one on lemmy.ml, which is very new. The old one is basically dead and everyone should go to the new one. I’ve posted this much to the old one so people know where to go.
Creating meta community communities for discussions around this can help too.