MOD POST: We (c/ps5 mods) are now also the lead mods over on c/PlayStation - Let's talk about the future of PlayStation Communities on Lemmy
MOD POST: We (c/ps5 mods) are now also the lead mods over on c/PlayStation - Let's talk about the future of PlayStation Communities on Lemmy
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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
Combining communities is a good idea
They can always be split up in the future, if the need arises
Yeah, if the userbase becomes big enough, and we start to have enough content that it becomes overwhelming in one community, we can always split it later on.
I think the current discussions on c/ps5 is about PlayStation in general instead of just console exclusive already, I don't think keeping it separate from c/Playstation would foster any diverging discussion environments, and as the communities here are still small-scale, conglomeration would generate much livelier climate and new discussions. So, in favor of joining forces
Thanks for the feedback!
Thanks for shepherding all this. Combining them seems to make sense as it builds a potentially stronger centralized user-base and should save a little on resources (your time and sanity).
Lmao, sanity is definitely a limited resource 🤣. When we migrated from Lemmy.ml to world, I didn't think we'd be considering a merge down the line. But the overwhelming opinion appears to be for a merge.
Just to be clear, if we do "merge" it would just mean that my posting effort would shift to c/PlayStation. C/PS5 will stay open for the community to use if they wish, and I will remain a mod. But weekly threads and regular posts from me would shift from ps5 to PlayStation. So the community should "merge" there in order to stay up to date.
Appreciate your thoughtful long-term approach here, CosmicSpoogeDrizzle.
Thanks! Just to be clear on your opinion. Are you in favor of a merge?
Looking at each community, I think there's enough subscribers to each for them to have separate communities. But looking at the posts, how many here are truly PS5 specific? So mostly I'd think it comes down to how much moderation do you want to do. Would you lock the !ps5@lemmy.world until some threshold percentage of !playstation@lemmy.world community posts are truly PS5-specific? Would you keep it open and rigidly delete posts for not being PS5-specific? As a community member, I really don't browse Lemmy by going to each community individually, and I subscribe to all related communities where people are posting. So I will still see all posts from both communities regardless, and I'd just try and be mindful of the posting rules when I have something to share. So I'm not going to notice much either way.