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Indeed, but the issue is when one third of the population is there

Indeed, I use it from time to time, but from my experience, it seems like LW users tend to stay on their local feed, increasing the visibility of their local communities compared to ones from other instance

Interesting, I never noticed, guess I’ll have to reinstall Thunder.

On browser, there is lemmyverse.link, but

• if the site goes down, all your links are now dead
• having to select the instance people want to see the link would probably be annoying to most users

I am not sure how apps can do it better than the web UI, but I had a quick look on the Github and that issue is still open: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987

moviesandtv exist, but don’t really allow people to discuss movies and shows, it’s mostly about news.

I suggested at the time to just have a pinned post like “what have you been watching”, but got banned by the mod for “backseat moderation” (see below: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/8381687)

The other issue is that as Lemmy posts don’t have unique URLs that can be used by every instance, you can’t just have a megathread with links to discussion threads, as that would work only for one instance

Now you understand 😄

They have a strange issue with their frontend, the instance is still running, and can be accessed using other front ends, but as you can see, not the best experience for a new joiner

I haven’t used Google in a while, DuckDuckGo indexes them okay, SearX too

Sometimes I question the fact that some communities might be too niche, but even on something as generic as !movies@lemm.ee there aren’t that many people wanting to talk about movies

Indeed.

Ideally, avoid the top three or five. That will naturally lead to a healthier balance.

That’s probably good for Mastodon, but for Lemmy there isn’t so much choice. My rule of thumb, in order is

• lemm.ee
• sh.itjust.works if you are ok with the name
• discuss.tchncs.de or lemmy.ca depending if you are located in Europe or North America
• lemmy.zip as they are good contenders, but a bit smaller than the others

I see

encourage account migration to combat overcentralization

My gut feeling is that most of the people on LW are comfortable there, and wouldn’t see the point in decentralization. That happened in the past with the removal of privacy communities, or the fact that LW is still federated with Threads, still they have 18k MAU

I keep hearing about bad moderation, so I guess it’s indeed an issue.

It is really a compromise, there is no ideal situation. Should we initiate something and ask people to leave LW due to bad moderation? That would probably be seen as unnecessary drama.

Hello, good to see you here!

I completely get what you mean. Beehaw creates its own kind of situation. For a long time I was hoping they would refederate with SJW and LW, especially after 0.19.X where users could block instances on their own, but I guess that’s never going to happen.

It’s really a shame, because people and communities on Beehaw are really valuable

Hello,

Thank you for your comment.

I agree with the fact that a story of post should only exist once, as you said. I guess the remaining question is what to do where there are two communities for the same topic.

I have a good example that I just stumbled upon: !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz is the most active community about maps, has usually one post per day every day for the last few months. Once in a while, someone posts on !mapporn@lemmy.world, and they instantly get a lot more comments than the first community.

!games@sh.itjust.works is also quite active, despite not being on LW.

Should we just give up with federation, and just aggregate all communities on LW?