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  • Lazycog@sopuli.xyztoChat@beehaw.orgI finally quit Reddit!
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    2 months ago

    Want to add to this nice comment that OP is on beehaw, which to my knowledge doesn’t allow users to create communities and tries to instead have a collection of broad subject communities. But if OP wants to create a community she can make another account on another instance to do create one and use that account + this one to moderate :)



  • True, and also it will make it feel less like “lemmy is dead” to new comers (something we have heard time and time again from people who are new to the fediverse) because they accidentally found the one community that was dead. It’s easier to point them to “our version” of a community they are looking for.

    Even in moderately popular communities the posting frequency is quite low compared to what some people are used to. For me personally I actually like the activity level of lemmy, but we need more people to account for comings and goings of users to be able to sustain communities on the long run.


  • Lazycog@sopuli.xyztoLemmy@lemmy.mlHow specific communities should be?
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    3 months ago

    I’ve had this discussion before and the conclusion was:

    Keep it as general as possible. Lemmy is still growing and small and a niche community looks often dead.

    Once the community becomes too big it’s easier to split the community into more specific communities.

    For example: we have quite a few communities about learning a specific language and they all seem inactive, so we are keeping a general community up ([email protected]) but don’t limit the content to anything specific. You can ask generally about languages, learning, or a specific language and you are more likely to get an answer from others than if you go to a language specific community.

    Once it’s too big it will be easy for an active group of people to move to, say, [email protected] or something.

    So, in short: start with a general community :)





  • Not really no, I haven’t bumped into any issues using the community wiki megathread so far.

    My question was prompted by me accidentally using a old bookmark that took me to rentry and noticed that it had seen updates very recently and compared to lemmy community wiki which seemed like it has not been updated since october. I started wondering whether the links were still all fine and there was no need to update them, or was it simply mostly abandoned and do people rather use rentry?

    I personally prefer the lemmy community edition, but I’m such a noob when it comes to piracy that I put maybe too much trust into the megathread and this was just a wake up call to double check what am I clicking on and thought maybe asking the community about the state of the wiki wasn’t a bad idea.