Hello everyone,
Basically the title.
In my case, I’m trying to address the regularly brought up issue about Lemmy/Kbin only being about memes, tech and news.
Hence, I’m trying to post regularly on
As we all know, growing a community is hard, but I hope that over time they will become more populated.
That’s good to hear!
Do you think at some point they should merge to just have more activity and content in one place rather than people having to discuss the same things twice?
Hard to say, I’d prefer having discussion be in one dedicated place but it’s probably a good idea having a backup community, especially at times where Lemmy World goes down.
I see. Yes, having a backup community makes sense, but at the same time, I always feel like having both similar communities creates a lot of other issues.
I never really know if I should post on !fediverse@lemmy.ml or !fediverse@lemmy.world for instance. I usually do it on the .ml one because it seems more active, but I also feed bad for people only on the .world who might miss content
That doesn’t happen because everything is federated, the .world users will also see the posts on .ml, they can upvote/downvote, comment etc. and vice-versa.
I know it’s true in theory, but in practice I have seen some LW users only wanting to browse their local feed, or not wanting to subscribe to .ml communities.
Another issue with having the same content posted twice is that the same discussion could just happen twice, bringing discussion fatigue to the people that just discussed the same topic in another thread.
How about the idea of creating an instance specific for the topic, but not opening for registrations? This would mean that the instance wouldn’t be so overloaded and less likely to disappear, no?
This is the approach I took for !main@soccer.forum. I am posting content following from my instance, and I hope that one day it can become the hub for all the soccer-related subs.