Hello everyone,
Opening this thread as a kind of follow-up on my thread yesterday about the drop in monthly active users on [email protected].
As I pointed in the thread, I personally think that having some consolidated core communities would be a better solution for content discovery, information being posted only once, and overall community activity.
One of the examples of the issue of having two (or more) exactly similar Fediverse communities ([email protected] and [email protected] ) is that is leads to
- people having to subscribe to both to see the content
- posters having to crosspost to both
- comment being spread across the crossposts instead of having all of the discussion and reactions happening in the same place.
I am very well aware of the decentralized aspect of Lemmy being one of its core features, but it seems that it can be detrimental when the co-existing communities are exactly the same.
We are talking about different news seen from the US or Europe, or a piece of news discussed in places with different political orientations.
The two Fediverse communities look identical, there is no specific editorial line. The difference in the audience is due to the federation decisions of the instances, but that's pretty much it, and as the topic of the community is the Fediverse itself, the community should probably be the one accessible from most of the Fediverse users.
What do you think?
Also, as a reminder, please be respectful in the comments, it's either one of the rules of the community or the instance. Disagreeing is fine, but no need to be disrespectful.
That's a fair point.
Interestingly enough, [email protected] is a good case of a single community where no other community exists on that topic, and it seems to be doing well.
That's also a very good point. I assume current Beehaw users who want to access that community use alts.
I actually saw a complaint the other day about [email protected] not being accessible from Beehaw.
That would be nice indeed
On a completely related topic, your instance looks interesting, how did you find it?
Interesting, thanks!