We have received numerous reports from users about the closure of the c/android community. While we fully support the original community owners’ decision to move to another instance, it will eventually be necessary to open up the community on Lemmy.world. The beauty of the fediverse is that multiple communities on the same subject can exist in different instances. However, if you can no longer moderate a community on Lemmy for any reason, it is important to pass it on to individuals who are willing and able to do so.
To ensure the best interests of our instance members, it is necessary to establish boundaries. Holding onto a community name cannot be a permanent arrangement. It’s important to consider our users’ ongoing interest in the community if they wish it to continue. While we acknowledge the objective of consolidating communities, current community members ultimately decide whether they wish to join the new community at lemdro.id.
To ensure a smooth transition, we will keep the community locked for another week, providing ample time to inform the active user base about the move to the new instance at https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected].
You can be a member of as many Android communities as you want. You don’t have to pick just one. The community isn’t divided. They can even share 90% of the same people.
There is no harm in giving each instance a shot at running the best Android community. If all but one sucks, then that one will naturally be the one people stay subscribed to.
why do these 2 communities exist if 90% of their users are exactly the same? this isn’t a real scenario, this doesn’t happen. everyone congregates to the biggest group.
I’m currently subscribed to gaming/games on lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works and kbin.social.
Each of those seems to be an active community.
If users from one choose to all congregate to one, that’s fine. But if all three want to exist, that’s great too.
Some people post, some people comment and some people lurk. Yes, 90% of posters across three communities probably doesn’t make sense. But commenters? Lurkers? That’s probably fine.
yeah, enjoy seeing 3 copies of the same trailers and articles in your feed LOL.
Lol, that’s totally fine.
When a new game comes out I want to read the comments from “gaming”, all versions of it, and I want to read the comments from “gamedevs” and I want to read the comments from “newgamelovers”.
Maybe Lemmy can one day provide a “similar discussions” feature to highlight other communities.
You’re using a link agregator. This is the opposite of what they are supposed to do.
I’m using Lemmy, it can do whatever it needs to do.
Also it’s not just a link aggregator. It’s comments too. “Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform.”
Google News is a link aggregator. I have it, I use it sometimes, but it’s just links. It’s kinda boring but fine.
I’m not here for just the links. I’m here for the community. Each community. As large or as small as they want to be. I want the short answer. I want the long answer. I want the right answer. I want the wrong answer.
There will be no community if defederation and decentralized communities continue to hamper growth and diversity in content.
I understand your defederation concerns. That is really what is going to cause problems. Last I checked behaw.org defederated from lemmy.world, that’s a genuine cause for concern. However I’m not worried about that long term.
I think Lemmy as a whole was just chilling and then a Reddit Exodus happened. If you owned an ice cream shop and suddenly school is cancelled you’re going to freak out a bit.
I think as things settle we’re all going to federate again. If we’re all alone then all of your initial concerns are completely valid. That isn’t to say that defederation is a bad thing. It makes sense sometimes. Even if different instances have different rules we have to share a general set of guidelines not to be a dick. Where that line is drawn is going to be complicated.
Luckily, most people are pretty cool. The loudest are usually assholes, but people as a whole are generally cool.
Decentralized however, that’s ok. That’s the crux of my argument. A hundred isolated communities isn’t going to work (at the current scale) but a few here and there is going to be fine. Shit Reddit did this all the time. Going back to I think one of my first posts I outlined how one community grew from a dissatisfaction from the existing community. The only real difference is that instead of changing from “gaming” to “games” they now change from “[email protected]” to “[email protected]”. It’s a couple extra characters, it’s not a big deal.