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Are there other communities we should try to consolidate?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Wish Star Wars had its own instance like Star Trek, or at the very least wasn't on world.

As an aside, I also wish this community had an icon, I subconsciously ignore communities without icons.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

they should be on the same instance.

if only to anger everyone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

That would be something

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I mean they're the same thing anyways. When Spock and Chewbacca raided those tombs from the Nazis with Han Solo, it really forced Darth Vader to admit to everyone that he was HAL 3000's father. To which HAL 3000 replied "I'm sorry father, I won't let you do that!"

And then they blew up the sealab 2021.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Wish Star Wars had its own instance like Star Trek, or at the very least wasn’t on world.

It's fine for now. Hopefully it will change in the future, but let's see.

@[email protected] initiated a discussion about a StarWars instance, but it got removed by the mod for being off-topic.

About the icon, it is now fixed, might take some time to federate: https://lemm.ee/c/fedigrow

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

@[email protected] initiated a discussion about a StarWars instance, but it got removed by the mod for being off-topic.

I did indeed and I have that and two other posts drafted for [email protected] (delayed because of work and improving my crafting flow on here). I hope to get one or two off tomorrow.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

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

Where was that discussion? How can a meta discussion about the community's future be considered off-topic? 🙃

PS. Good icon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Look at the modlog, happened a month ago: https://lemmy.world/modlog/1209

How can a meta discussion about the community’s future be considered off-topic? 🙃

Had that happen plenty of times on other communities unfortunately...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Such a shame. Looking at the modlog, the moderator obviously didn't do it maliciously, hence trying to move the discussion to private messages, but ultimately, that kills any traction and prevents the community from coming together to support the idea and discuss important things like funding.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Looking at the modlog, the moderator obviously didn’t do it maliciously

Oh indeed - Mods set the remit of their communities and enforce it. Experience suggests some don't like meta discussions - so it wasn't a post about Star Wars but about something which would be about Star Wars.

ultimately, that kills any traction and prevents the community from coming together to support the idea and discuss important things like funding

Yes, it's a bit Catch 22. Fortunately, @[email protected] has said I can restart discussion here, as it's a handy place to float to float ideas for new instances to see what the interest might be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

That’s the cool thing about the fediverse. Anyone can set up a new server at any point in time and host their content. No one is being stopped from doing that.

Oh… Don’t want to pay for money to set up and instance? Oh…. Don’t want to spend the time administering an instance? Oh… one may exist, but it’s not that popular so no one uses it?

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

It came up in our previous discussion on Star Wars communities:

Both this duplication and the Star Wars ones seemed to happen because the original Mods became inactive and there isn't an easy way to add in new Mods and/or a reluctance to meddle with someone else's community (I've added plenty of new Mods on feddit.uk so it is doable where there's enthusiasm).

I suspect some digging would uncover other examples on l.w (as it's the largest instance) especially as you see a lot of communities started during the enthusiasm of Rexit and then the Mods wandered off and have been MIA for 7-10 months.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Did you try pinging [email protected] on the inactive community? They locked the two ones I mentioned above so it's probably worth a try

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I have that, we did discuss it with an l.w Admin the other month, so I presume it's on their radar.

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

Feel free to remind it to them, sometimes this kind of things fall off the radar

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I'll give them a nudge when In make the Star Wars post, hopefully tomorrow.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Randomly discussed "privacy" with @[email protected]

[email protected] seems to be the main one.

[email protected] is quite active, but people are trying to move from there (see discussions on [email protected] )

Other active options:

Maybe we should ping the mods and see if they can all agree one on that should be "the one"?

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

Thank fuck. The -*porn suffix really should have been left behind.

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

Consolidation makes sense if we want a centralized system. But I came to lemmy to get away from centralized systems.

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

In the first case, having the community on sopuli.xyz rather than lemmy.world is a step towards decentralization.

There is a certain level of consolidation to be had to that community are active enough to survive. Otherwise you have plenty of inactive communities. Ideal from a decentralization perspective, but lacking as discussion spaces.