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  • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOP
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    2 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
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      2 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
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        2 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