For the unaware, is a alternative to platforms such as Reddit and Tildes.
I've been using Lemmy as one of my main social platforms for the past 6 months...
At some point we need to acknowledge that there are only so many active communities we can sustain, and that usually the most active becomes the default one.
Do we? I don’t think we need to. People are free subscribe to either, both, or none. And adding a feature where a community can follow another solves pretty much all issues one could have with fracturing.
This use case seems to be more for situations when you do have 2 more relatively active communities (with one being smaller).
Then why not consolidate?
Many reasons. A lot of them are the same reasons to have independent instances.
At some point we need to acknowledge that there are only so many active communities we can sustain, and that usually the most active becomes the default one.
[email protected] is definitely the most active community compared to [email protected]
Do we? I don’t think we need to. People are free subscribe to either, both, or none. And adding a feature where a community can follow another solves pretty much all issues one could have with fracturing.
Evidence shows that all over the platform there’s one community which becomes the main one for a given topic
Subscribers can, but posters are not going to crosspost their content to all the communities available on a topic
That’s not even on the roadmap of Lemmy, Piefed or Mbin, is it?
Proposal 3 according to another comment on this thread.