• GollumEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Aren’t there already a lot of these communities out there? Like:

    There are more communities for this topic as unsers users, where is the point?

    • @AkhuyanOPMEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      I’m not familiar with the term unsers. However, there is a point for multiple communities. Lemmy is meant to be decentralized with no central authority, leading to multiple communities that are the same (or with similar topics) that have different rules and moderators.

      As an example, the first one is based on posting AI generated images with no specific platform while the second one is to share tips, questions, and images created on Midjourney only. This shows the differences, but even if the topics were entirely the same, it would be important for choice and decentralization

      • GollumEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        While I think that you are partly right. There is also a problem of a fragmented user base with nearly the same interest. Because a lot of these communities will become forgotten earlier than later.
        Lemmy doesn’t have a huge user base like Reddit currently, and maybe will never have one. So, in my opinion, it doesn’t make sense to try to create a new community for every niche topic out there if there is already a suiting community, while existing ones do not get any attention. Lemmy is federated, not decentralized, which is somewhat part of the difficulty.

        Furthermore, did you try to be part of one of the existing communities because you mentioned different rules and mods? I think that might counteract the fragmentation.

        This being said, feel free to create whatever community you wish to create, I just wanted to point that out, and might be helpful for those who like to join one of the existing once.

        Note: When I referred to unsers, I, of course, meant users the lemmings using this platform, this was a misspelling.

        • @AkhuyanOPMEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Federated is when multiple unrelated instances of a software can communicate and share with one another. Decentralized is when there is no central point, no one set of servers, and there is choice which is what Lemmy is and it’s not centralized like Reddit is. Lemmy can be both federated and decentralized.

          They even say in the introduction in the Docs, that I will link below, that “Federation is a form of decentralization. Instead of a single central service that everyone uses, there are multiple services that any number of people can use.”

          https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/introduction.html?highlight=decentr#introduction

          I think there is some semblance of misunderstanding. I only moderate three communities and those are for communities that I did not see any alternatives for at the beginning, after searching for them.

          I did not try to be part of the existing communities first as I did not create this one at all either. This community is for discovery and promotion of new communities. I post them to help give choices that people may not be aware of and fragmentation is not necessarily a bad thing in the first place. Fragmented communities can make the communities smaller, leading to an actual sense of community. Bigger does not always mean better.

          Lemmy is meant to be decentralized like said before and a point of that is that there is no one place that controls the whole federation. While it might not make sense to you, the decentralized nature gives people the ability to create and interact with the communities they choose and don’t need to go to one place even if it’s a niche topic