Active = at least one post since last week

  • Dremor@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    4 months ago

    I’m only a moderator, that’s not a decision I’d be taking alone.

    Problem is that a community as broad as a gaming one is bound to be subscribed my many user on many instances. Switching it to another one will only move the problem elsewhere, not fix it.

    Still, if that’s a problem, we could research other courses of actions, like dividing LW in multiple sub-instances for broad topics. The idea would be to get all gaming related community on “games.lemmy.world”, and getting most games related communities to switch there, so external instances can subscribe to that specific instance without receiving all the other updates from other communities. That would also make it a lot easier to scale the servers to the right size for the right use.

    But once again that’s not my decision to take.

    • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      4 months ago

      Problem is that a community as broad as a gaming one is bound to be subscribed my many user on many instances. Switching it to another one will only move the problem elsewhere, not fix it.

      Is it? I always feel like for every topic the schema is

      • a community on LW
      • a community on another instance that exists mostly to avoid centralization on LW

      Examples

      That does not automatically mean that the LW community is “too full”, just that some users want to use other instances as well

      There was a while ago the example of !mapporn@lemmy.world vs !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

      As the sopuli community was more active, the LW admins closed down the LW one to focus all the activity on a single community

      The idea would be to get all gaming related community on “games.lemmy.world”, and getting most games related communities to switch there, so external instances can subscribe to that specific instance without receiving all the other updates from other communities.

      Seems very close to just hosting communities on other instances? From your message, I feel like people on LW want to keep communities on “LW instances”, I’m wondering why. Is it due to distrust with other instances? Lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works and lemmy.zip have been around as long as LW, have transparent financial reports and high availability times.

      • AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        3 months ago

        From your message, I feel like people on LW want to keep communities on “LW instances”, I’m wondering why.

        Because these communities are already there and are active, that’s why. Not everybody has to share your enthusiasm for removing communities from lemmy.world.

        • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOP
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          3 months ago

          I’m talking about active communities on other instances who could be even more active if LW non active communities would redirect to them

          • AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            3 months ago

            I know. But not everybody seems to share your enthusiasm for locking the communities on world.

            Looking at your examples:

            The movie ones: To me the world one looks like the way healthier community, a lot more different users posting stuff, on lemm.ee it’s mostly some power users creating all the content, actually really only moderators of that community. I find you talking about how it is the more active community a bit dishonest tbh. Same i found with the dataisbeautiful one. I have a feeling you care more about computers (fedi infra) than the topics.

            The gaming one somebody else told you their opinion on it, and why it is a good community.

            The android ones… i don’t really have an opinion on it. IIRC at first they were all on the world (or.ml?) one and then created the lemdro.id instance. What about the .ml one by the way? Why is it only ever a problem when world has a community that exists elsewhere?

            Generally i don’t think having multiple active c’s is all that problematic, at least they are active.