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Blaze OP , 1 month ago to Fedigrow in Beehaw's number of communities, and why it makes sense

I see where they come from, but from a new user perspective, it's quite confusing to see too similar-looking communities, more or less similarly active, with more or less the same type of content, and not know where to post

!android is more software development oriented, and !android has the typical lemmy.ml spin to it.

I’m not sure how either side would agree to “merge”, since wanting self-governance was the reason the split happened in the first place.

Indeed, but on that point I'm not sure how the LW is currently moderated. The moderators don't seem that active (it's a trend I've noticed among a few LW communities). If I have some time in the coming days, I might contact them to see if they are still interested in managing that community, or if uniting forces with lemdro.id would make more sense

Blaze , 1 month ago to New Communities in Dia Duit - Come join my Irish/Gaeilge learning/speaking community!

Good luck ! Beannachd leat !

Blaze OP , 1 month ago to Fedigrow in Beehaw's number of communities, and why it makes sense

I think it also depends how popular the topic is.

Gaming, as you said, exists on several platforms, with different mods and teams because it's a quite popular topic.

On the other hand, I also regularly browse !android and !android, and they seem pretty similar to me (be it rules or content wise), they are also lacking some activity, so they would probably benefit from being merged, and having one as the reference.

Blaze OP , 1 month ago to Fedigrow in Beehaw's number of communities, and why it makes sense

But not every instance has the same governance as lemmy.zip.

Agreed

Would you also be fine with some community becoming de facto reference on beehaw.org or hexbear.net or lemmy.world?

No, and that's why I listed SJW and lemm.ee in my OP (to be honest, I should probably change LW to lemmy.zip)

Beehaw is too deferated indeed.

Hexbear comes with their own specific stance.

LW, I feel like they are okay for now. The major issue I see with them is the federation with Threads, but that can always change (and probably will if we get millions of trolls at once)

I guess my idea would be to have a subset of instances that are compatible, rules and federation wise (lemmy.zip, lemm.ee, SJW, Reddthat.com), and spread communities among them, with one reference community on one single instance.

LW centralization is an issue on its own, but that's the subject of another thread already.

Blaze , 1 month ago to Fediverse in This site claims to run Mastodon but its front-end looks fresh and smooth!

If you look at any profile page, it's the classic Mastodon layout: https://veganism.social/@mascottus

The probably just customized the home page

If you really want something a bit less austere than Mastodon you can have a look at https://iceshrimp.social/

Blaze OP , 1 month ago to Fedigrow in Beehaw's number of communities, and why it makes sense

Agree with your first paragraph.

If !databreaches became the reference community, then it’s subject to all the federation/defederation of lemmy.zip, rules of lemmy.zip and laws of lemmy.zip host server and applying it to the whole Fediverse.

Indeed. I found Lemmy.zip governance to be very transparent and responsible, so I wouldn't mind.

Blaze OP , 1 month ago to Fedigrow in Beehaw's number of communities, and why it makes sense

I wouldn't say they are the opposite, they are still federated with a lots of instance, just not LW and SJW.

About the grouping of communities, that would be an improvement, but at the same time, wouldn't that be strange for new joiners to have to group a few communities on the same topic while they only want to follow it?

I know it's a balance between centralization and decentralization, but sometimes I feel we went a step too far in the latter.

For instance, if !databreaches became the one reference community on data breaches, that would be nice, we probably don't need a community on this topic on 4 other instances

Blaze OP , 1 month ago to Fedigrow in How do you deal with being the only one posting in a community (aka "shouting into the void")?

Thanks for sharing your experience. I see your posts every day, impressive

Blaze , 1 month ago to Fediverse in What existing platforms do you wish were federated?

Just being able to see interesting job posts in my field and area

But if you would like to contribute to Fediverse project, I would say that the current link aggregator options would have more impact:

• if you know Rust: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
• if you know Java: https://github.com/sublinks
• if you know PHP: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/
• if you know Python: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/

Blaze , 1 month ago to Fediverse in What existing platforms do you wish were federated?

LinkedIn.

It's one of the last social media I have. Benefits outweigh cons, but I still would like to get rid of it

Blaze , 1 month ago to Fediverse in Mobilizon v/s Nextcloud (v/s other?) for a network of people event calendar

Both could work, in a different way.

Nextcloud is more like a shared agenda, where you need to explicity invite people to events.

Mobilizon is more like Facebook events, where anyone with the link can say they will attend.

You might even have both, a Nextcloud for the members of the org and a Mobilizon as the public events

Blaze OP , 1 month ago to New Communities in Reviving !interestingasfuck@lemm.ee

I mod enough communities to be honest, and people tend to have comments around how the content is interesting. Not the most polarizing community.

We can try like this for a bit, and if needed, I'll step in, but I would rather not

Blaze OP , 1 month ago to Fedigrow in Pinging a few people who are among the usual posters

@BrikoX for posting on most of the lemmy.zip communities

Blaze OP , 1 month ago to Mildly Infuriating in [Meta] Just deleted a post due to the high level of negativity around here

Feel free to have a look: https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1cd8ng5/the_price_increase_of_disney_over_the_past_4_years/

The few top comments are quite neutral, then it gets into the "CANCEL. YOUR. SUBSCRIPTION." territory.

So I guess now Lemmy is on par with Reddit? Anyway

Blaze , 1 month ago to Fediverse in EU : Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.

If they could encourage it at the countries level that would be nice too.

Some German and NL public services have Mastodon accounts IIRC, that's a first step.