Additional small comment: just had a look at the community, well done for the AMA with the game developer!
To be honest, this community seems nice and we'll run, my comment was more targeting at LW communities almost "name squatting", which is definitely not the case here, well done!
That's the one I wanted to mention above, missed the xiv in the name
Hello,
Thank you for commenting!
I agree with you with points 1 and 2.
Content is hard to find, and I talked about this many times, leaving LW communities means splitting the userbase even more and wondering where the content is.
Agreed on discoverability, that's why we now have those threads, and that !newcommunities@lemmy.world is featured at the top of LW's home page.
On the other hand, sometimes it's a bit frustrating. !movies@lemm.ee is now more active and with more content than the LW version, but some people still keep posting to it, while we offered moderation position to anyone who would like to (looking at you, !moviesandtv@lemm.ee ), and Lemm.ee is a well established instance with a neutral domain name.
I moved !casualconversation@lemmy.world to !casualconversation@lemm.ee , left a pinned post there so that people could find the new community, it's more active now that it used to be on LW.
Anyway, that's it for me, again thank you for your comment.
To flourish, it probably needs a mod, at least to setup a weekly discussion thread and give people opportunity to comment
Didn't know about this one, that's nice, and they have almost as many followers as the LW one! Edited my comment
Problem is that a community as broad as a gaming one is bound to be subscribed my many user on many instances. Switching it to another one will only move the problem elsewhere, not fix it.
Is it? I always feel like for every topic the schema is
- a community on LW
- a community on another instance that exists mostly to avoid centralization on LW
Examples
- !android@lemdro.id vs !android@lemmy.world
- !games@sh.itjust.works vs games@lemmy.world
- !movies@lemm.ee vs !movies@lemmy.world
That does not automatically mean that the LW community is "too full", just that some users want to use other instances as well
There was a while ago the example of !mapporn@lemmy.world vs !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
As the sopuli community was more active, the LW admins closed down the LW one to focus all the activity on a single community
The idea would be to get all gaming related community on “games.lemmy.world”, and getting most games related communities to switch there, so external instances can subscribe to that specific instance without receiving all the other updates from other communities.
Seems very close to just hosting communities on other instances? From your message, I feel like people on LW want to keep communities on "LW instances", I'm wondering why. Is it due to distrust with other instances? Lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works and lemmy.zip have been around as long as LW, have transparent financial reports and high availability times.
The Gaza Ministry of Health thing rings a bell.
No time to investigate this further now, but if someone can jump in to bring sources on the matter (whatever side), that would be nice.
Yes, gaming is definitely a huge topic on Lemmy
Still, the last four ones ha ha ha, do you think there could be a way to consolidate?
Hello!
Question for you: have you ever considered moving your community to another instance, like !games@sh.itjust.works, to spread the communities a bit out of Lemmy.world?
Centralization creates technical issues, at the moment aussie.zone have a week delay with LW as it is too large ( https://lemmy.world/post/15634599 ). There was another issue in the past, where instances like lemmy.blahaj.zone, lemdro.id, lemmy.nz, reddthat.com were impacted : https://lemmy.world/post/13967373
Already posted in another comment, but I edited this one as well
Another perspective "Rights expert finds ‘reasonable grounds’ genocide is being committed in Gaza "
You might want to have a look at this: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469273-lemmy-universal-link-switcher
https://gitlab.com/azzurite/lemmy-universal-link-switcher
Maybe it can help you
Interesting, thanks. I haven't followed the international court decisions since a while, guess I need a refresher.
An article I just found on the matter: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx88l499vero
World, .ml, and Hexbear
I would focus more on the second listing which has 57 for LW, 10 for lemmy.ml and 5 for SJW
Hexbear only has 1
I'm kind of impressed lemm.ee has even 3 top 100 communities due to the predominance of LW.
Also, I just had a look again. The 100th monthly community is starwars memes, and I count at least 2 sopuli communities above, !memes@sopuli.xyz and !ukraine@sopuli.xyz
we can all chip in to start livening up communities outside LW
Indeed, as always, feel free to join us on !fedigrow@lemm.ee
Games specific
General communities:
Hello everyone,
Very quick question: when a community is deleted, there is a grace period to allow mods to restore it (which seems to be at max 24 hours from our observations). My question is
- how long is the grace period for mods?
- do admins have grace periods too, or can they restore it without any time limit?
From skimming through the database definition (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/d479bb96c64047a84914d64cbe1d8a366e1ec182/crates/db_schema/src/source/community.rs) it seems that just edits the "hidden" boolean
But still curious to see if someone knows how long the grace period is, and where it comes from (probably front-end)
Active = at least one post in the last seven days
