I’m new here, so I’d like to know if this project is growing steadily or not really catching on. It has a lot of potentioal imho, but I understand how hard it is to make people use “alternative” websites.

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    3 years ago

    If i or someone else is interesting in something like investing or dieting and there is no community here then we will not be here.

    True, but one thing I think the Lemmy.ml admins is doing wrong is opening the creation of communities to everyone. Lemmy have less than 4k active users, but more than 2000 community. that’s less than 2 users for each community, so its fair to say that its stretched thin.

    If I was them, I’d only allow “Community requesting”, where people need to get approval before creating a community. /c/Memes exist? Applying for /c/Dankmemes is rejected. Until there is a substantial number of users, it would remain 1 community per topic. Might be a bit too restrictive for some tastes, but it is necessary imho.

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      3 years ago

      It adds an overhead for the moderators, approving or denying all these requests, I think going with facebook solution of showing how active are communities in the search results is good enough.

      But i think you could probably create a “middle man” server that implements this, it could sent requests to the front end from the regular lemmy server but when you try to create a community it would take over (and will be able to save relevant information).

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      3 years ago

      or just delete communities with low or no users, no posts, and the admin has been dormant ever since creation.