[Meta] Why this community when there is already [email protected] ?
[Meta] Why this community when there is already [email protected] ?
- 694 users / day
- 2.19K users / week
- 2.43K users / month
- 175 users / day
- 418 users / week
- 986 users / month
Having two similar communities on the same topic splits conversations, and give posters decision fatigue
Edit: some topics have consolidated their communities to avoid that, example from a few months ago: https://lemm.ee/post/46935805
Edit2: the UK community has a lot of different mod. The .org community only has one, who hasn't been active since 8 days.
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Thats how the fediverse works. you could have many communities of the type or even the same name on different instances.
They are not interconnected and you have to subscribe to all of them if you don't want to miss anything.
They are not interconnected and you have to subscribe to all of them if you don’t want to miss anything.
Which is brought up repeatedly by people against the Fediverse and Lemmy for a reason not to come here. Having similar communities consolidated helps to defuse that.
This is not a case of [email protected] vs [email protected]. The two BuyEuropean communities look very similar, and the instances have similar moderation policies.
I mean, meh, reddit had duplicate subreddits a million times and still has. One eventually dominates, which will also probably happen here.
We don't have the user base that Reddit has.
There have been parallel communities existing without a clear winner for a very long time
- [email protected] and [email protected]
- [email protected] and [email protected]
- [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected]
- [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Communities need to be actively consolidated for people to converge on one community. Examples of closed communities
- [email protected] in favour of [email protected]
- [email protected] for [email protected]
- [email protected] for [email protected]
The vegan one would be hard, there are like 15 of them!
I would suggest that [email protected] be the default as it is ran and hosted by actually vegans though the instance version is at 0.19.5 with [email protected] 0.19.9 a close second.
Everyone from Lemmy.ml, Hexbear.net and Lemmygrad.ml should consolidate into [email protected] 0.19.9.