Right now on Lemmy we have a bunch of dad-based communities with varying levels of discussion. From the ones I can find, we have:

[email protected] - last few posts were about a month ago. Mod was last active 10 months ago.

[email protected] - last couple posts were about 2 months ago. The post before that was about 5 months ago. Not sure about mod activity.

[email protected] - last post was yesterday, with some other posts in past few weeks. Mod was last active 6 months ago.

[email protected] - last post was a few weeks ago, with a couple months in between posts after that. Mod was last active 10 months ago.

[email protected] - last couple posts were a week ago. With about a month or so between posts after that. Both mods were last active a year ago.

[email protected] - last post was 3 months ago. Mod was last active 2 months ago.

[email protected] - last post was about a month ago, and the one before that was about 4 months ago. Mod was last active today.

To help facilitate discussion, what do you all think about consolidating the dad-based discussion to one of those groups (preferably a somewhat moderated one, which just seems to be fatherverse…) for now?

  • @[email protected]English
    3•5 months ago

    I see where you come from.

    That’s why I try to keep both [email protected] and [email protected] active, while they have more or less the same topics.

    Some communities are made to be “Internet inclusive”, some other are more “location grounded”

    I guess sometimes the Lemmy population is not large enough to have “location grounded” communities, so it might be better to merge into the “all inclusive” one

    Last point: as a non-native European, I never really paid attention to the English-speaking social media being very US-centric, hopefully that’s a bias we can correct here on Lemmy.

    Lemmy.world is the biggest instance and managed by a team located (at least partially) in the Netherlands, so that’s a nice change compared to Reddit

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝English
      2•5 months ago

      Last point: as a non-native European, I never really paid attention to the English-speaking social media being very US-centric, hopefully that’s a bias we can correct here on Lemmy.

      I’m working on it. And there are Canadian and Australian instances doing their bit too.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•5 months ago

        I know, and that’s great! Lemm.ee, feddit.de, feddit.dk, feddit.it and all the others are great!

        But on that topic, that still brings us to the question of “should an instance with a country TLD be limited to content of that country?”

        Someone on Lemmy.ca brought that point up a few days back:

        A sort of related more general comment. For the sake of my Local feed, I wish Lemmy.ca was only human-created Canada-centric content. That’s why I signed up to the lemmy.ca instance. A couple week’s prior to this community’s creation there was an influx of bot-run communities. I blocked them, because I don’t want to see 15 Cool Guide or Reddit-based Nostalgia posts in my Local feed, displacing human-created Canada-centric content. It’s not a perfect solution though, because I wouldn’t mind seeing those posts on my All feed. I know from community growth and server cost perspectives it doesn’t make sense to limit who or what can be posted (beyond blocking hate speech and other obviously objectionable material). I wish I could have multiple Subscribed feeds. In lieu of that, maybe I should choose another instance based on Local feed appeal and port Lemmy.ca communities that I like to my subscribed feed

        https://lemmy.ca/post/22625492/9613729

        So that comes back to the point I mentioned above. When I created [email protected] on lemm.ee, it was obvious that it wasn’t going to be limited to Estonians.

        However, when a community is created on feddit.uk, it can be centered on a local approach to a thematic (such as [email protected] ). Which is great, but as I said, we are probably still very early in the stage of having different dad communities on Lemmy, so having mainly one (whatever instance it is on) might be more effective for activity