Fedigrow

625 readers

5 users here now

To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks

founded 6 months ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Is it a good idea to post to abandoned communities about their active counterparts? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

6 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I'm mostly thinking about LW communities where nobody posts but which have active counterparts on other instances

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I like this because people showing up to those communities might think that topic doesn't have activity on Lemmy, when it actually does. Assuming the moderators are still active, the abandoned community can stay open to new posts (in case there are issues with the active counterpart).

I personally subscribe to both, so that I can get all the posts, but I post to the community I consider the 'main' community

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for your comment!

I did it yesterday in [email protected] to show people that [email protected] is there, let's see how it goes.

I sometimes think that unmoderated communities should be closed, and just be left and locked with a pointer to the active one. In case an issue arises with the active one, they can still be unlocked and used as back up.