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Reddit to Lemmy, easily
Isn't it Belgian?
It is, but at least the CEO does not make Nazi salutes
Firstly, [email protected] still has 2,500 subscribers, while [email protected] only has 1,500 at this point. Additionally, the moderators are now directing users to [email protected], which has even fewer subscribers (around 200), as mentioned in this post.
[email protected] is by far the most active community on this topic:
(https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=tv+shows&order=active)
Subscribers are not a relevant metric as [email protected] was created during the API exodus, but a lot of people left since then. Active users is a better metric.
Rather than a clean transition, this situation has resulted in a fractured community.
I know, I am that mod. This decision is actually a way to consolidate the existing communities on that topic
So this is consolidation rather than fracturing. The first two communities have been locked. Should the mod team of [email protected] start to power trip, people can ask the lemm.ee admins to get one of the two others communities back and move there.
Secondly, in this case, the issue was malicious moderation. Users left because of bad mod behavior, but the real concern remains: admins have the final say. If an admin decides to power trip, the entire community—and potentially the whole instance—falls under their control.
[email protected] was created as an alternative from power tripping admins on strartrek.website, and is now the most active community about Star Trek. So even power tripping admins can be dealt with. @[email protected] can attest.
In contrast, a decentralized approach with similar communities on different instances offers a natural fail-safe. If one instance becomes problematic, users can easily regroup on other similar communities rather than having to start from scratch. This ensures continuity and resilience rather than the all-or-nothing risk of centralization.
You can have alternative communities locked, so that they are ready to be used, but still keep the conversations happening on the main community.
Whether or not this happens depends on developer support
Indeed, but it is not implemented at the moment. Should the mods of /r/BuyfromEU ask us which Lemmy community we want to add to their sidebar, which one should give them? Should we give them the 4 of them just because we can't decide on one?
The question isn’t whether consolidation is the only way to improve discussion efficiency—it’s whether it’s the best way. And given the risks of power concentration, it seems clear that a better solution lies in improving the tools rather than weakening decentralization.
Where are the alternative active communities to
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
People don't want to shout into the void. They go where the people are. Another example:
- https://feddit.nl/post/30598218 161 upvotes, 10 comments
- https://feddit.nl/post/30596578 27 upvotes, 0 comment
- https://feddit.nl/post/30602071 13 upvotes, 0 comment
This is a natural phenomenon. When Lemmy will have a bigger userbase (e.g. 100k monthly active users), we could maybe have parallel communities about specific topics, but at the moment, it seems counterproductive.
Thank you for your comment
The idea of migrating communities when moderation becomes problematic sounds good in theory, but in practice, it rarely works, especially as the network scales up. It’s also cumbersome. People don’t want to uproot and start over repeatedly, and large communities don’t just “move” smoothly. Instead, they tend to fracture, lose engagement, or remain stuck under poor leadership.
People left [email protected] after the power tripping: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/29606682. [email protected] became the most active community
[email protected] is also another example: https://feddit.org/post/7025680/4263481
get that, but this feels like a problem that should be solved at the platform level rather than by consolidating communities. People should be able to subscribe to multiple similar communities across different instances, and the feed algorithm should be able to detect and bundle similar posts across these communities. However, it should not decide which content is “best”. It should simply organize the feed more efficiently without interfering with visibility.
This is not going to happen any time soon for Lemmy, and even though Piefed has feeds, the issue stays the same: if a question about European luggage is listed on 3 different communities, people are not going to copy paste their answers in the 3 communities, leading to discussion splintering
In the end, this is the ongoing dilemma of decentralization: Do we prioritize distribution of power, or do we focus on ease of use? There’s no perfect answer, but we should aim for a balance rather than rushing to consolidate.
I am in favor of having one community, [email protected] , due to the good track record of the instance admins.
Should the mods start power tripping, people can organize on [email protected]
cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/30601987
Just here to shed some light on Bookwyrm.social, the Fediverse equivalent of Goodreads. I've been doing some more reading lately, and I like to keep track of what I read and also I like reading other's review, suggestions, etc. Now I boycot amazon and others big tech as much as possible, so for me Bookwyrm.social is the place to be. It's steadily growing I think, but I thought it deserved some more attention, therefor this post. Same goes for BookBrainz and to a lesser extend IA's Openlibrary. OpenLibrary is, among other things, a place where people catalogue book-metadata, and if a book is not on Bookwyrm.social yet, it can often be imported from OpenLibrary. Problem with OpenLibrary is that the data is often messy and there are a lot of duplicates. That's where BookBrainz comes in, the book-equivalent of MusicBrainz. They're not that big yet, but what they do very well is that they have got very clean data. I feel like BookBrainz has the potential to be the perfect source of data on books, for other apps to use as they please, similar to how MusicBrainz is already functioning. It just needs more contributors, but I'm sure it's steadily growing. I just started doing my part, adding the books I read on all three.
Would love to hear thoughts on these platforms, as well as other platform suggestion if you've got any.
Hello,
Copy pasting what I put in another post on [email protected]
My personal stance on this is that
If rules, moderation policies and admin policies are similar, there should only be one community on a single topic while we have a userbase below 100k
This allows for [email protected] and [email protected] to coexist, as there is a reason for them to (different moderation policies). It's similar for [email protected] and [email protected], as those communities have different principles and perspectives on their topic.
This suggests to consolidate communities like [email protected] and [email protected]
Another recent example is
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- there is now a third community, [email protected]
These three communities have similar rules, similar moderation and admin policies. They should be consolidated. And I know this is a very controversial topic, but I made a longer post recently on [email protected] for people interested.
In summary, my main argument is that
- even though subscribers can potentially subscribe to all communities on a topic
- posters are only going to post to one community, because they want the conversation to happen with the most people in one place, which is not the case if you crosspost as the comments gets splintered across the different communities
To take a recent example
As a member of both communities, I find it a pain to have two similar communities even more so when both post the exact same content because it creates more noise in my feed and because it forces me to waste my time and energy deciding where I will read said duplicated content and maybe post a comment. The solution is obvious: I will unsubscribe from one (for the time being, I still follow the two communities).
https://jlai.lu/post/16318139/13038429
There is a natural tendency of "one community emerges as the main one" on several topics
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
If one community does not emerge as the main one, it's usually because two or more regular posters maintain both communities active by posting to their preferred community.
- [email protected] vs [email protected]
- [email protected] vs [email protected]
- all the privacy communities that are active at the same time
So, my suggestions are to consolidate similar communities. This single decision will not make this platform similar to Reddit. On Reddit, you had no way to complain about power tripping mods, there were no public modlogs, and discourse criticizing the mods or the admins would get silenced.
Here, we have [email protected], and recent examples have shown that the community can actually resist power tripping: https://feddit.org/post/7025680/4263481.
If the mods of the consolidated community start to power trip, document this on [email protected] and reorganize on the alternative communities. If not, stay on that one community, to foster more active conversations and posts.
That's the theory we encourage on [email protected], feel free to join us there to discuss this further.
Thank you for the additional context!
[email protected] ?