Hello everyone,

The former mods of c/playstation have graciously decided to pass over the lead mod position to me so that we can continue to build a great place for PlayStation here on Lemmy.

I have posted a discussion post to the c/playstation community members which you can find here: https://lemmy.world/post/5350313

I am proposing a few questions to subscribers of Playstation and PS5:

  • Should c/playstation and c/ps5 join forces? Lemmy as a whole is still very small, and I believe having subscribers divided across two largely similar communities is doing us a disservice. A larger community means more discussions, more comments, more everything.

  • Should we remain separate? I know many of you likely joined c/playstation and c/ps5 for different reasons. Merging the communities might not be what you all want.

  • Do you have different ideas from those above? Please let us know below!

The point of this post is to hear from all of you and gather feedback and ideas before any decision is made. Currently, I plan to release a survey to formalize the options and opinions of the community before we do anything. For now, this post is to inform you all of what is happening and see what you all think.

Many of you are also aware that we previously migrated from lemmy.ml to lemmy.world. I did that migration unilaterally because I felt the community was being threatened. I do NOT intend to merge or migrate this community again without direct feedback and direction from c/PS5 subscribers as I do not want the community to lose faith in our leadership. Please let me know your thoughts below.

  • Baron Von J
    2•9 months ago

    Whereas c/PlayStation has stagnant growth and no regular content. Keeping c/PlayStation to only PS4 and backwards content is not really a good thing IMHO.

    Agreed

    Essentially, instead of PlayStation, PS4, PS3, PS2, etc all being defunct communities and only PS5 being actively developed. I would just be making PlayStation the main effort, and the console specific communities would be left to the community to develop if they wish.

    Sounds reasonable. Moderator burnout hurts the whole community, so I think you’ve presented solid arguments for consolidating. And like I said I subscribe to all the communities that affect me (as I imagine most members do), so we won’t really be left wondering where all the [email protected] content has suddenly gone. As you enforce the moderation rules moving forward, people will just start posting in the right community.

    So that’s a thumbs-up from me for your proposal to consolidate!

    • CosmicSploogeDrizzleOPMEnglish
      3•9 months ago

      Awesome! And I do the same thing regarding subscribing to all relevant communities. So that’s good reassurance that this potential “merge” won’t really be all that disruptive for many.