Do you think the mostly limited range of political views is a strength or a weakness of Lemmy? (For example, in terms of attracting new users.) (feddit.nl)

submitted 6 days ago by crimeschneck@feddit.nl to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Sure, there are always outliers and you can correct me if I'm wrong, but that's just the overall impression I have.

(I wasn't sure if !asklemmy@lemmy.world or this community would fit better for this kind of question, but I assume it fits here.)

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[-] Blaze@feddit.org 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I wish you’d treat LW as you do any other instance. We’re not hostile to other instances, and I think there’s a healthy balance right now. It doesn’t hurt Lemmy to have a bigger, more mainstream instance. I think defederation solely for the sake of defederation does hurt Lemmy.

I never advocated for defederation of LW, just for more decentralization rather than have 90% of the active communities on LW.

You never answered my latest comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/13624614

Just to make it sure, are you saying that it's not true that at this moment

!showsandmovies@lemm.ee has 1.85k monthly active users

!television@lemmy.world has 754 monthly active users?

What prevents you from locking !television@lemmy.world, redirect to !showsandmovies@lemm.ee, and get that community more active?

I can even make you or any other LW mod mod of that community too, I'm not attached to being a mod, I just want communities to flourish on other instances as well.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago

Because besides monthly active users, LW has 4,600 subscribers where lemm.ee has 537. It's not a clear cut case.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

What good is 4600 subscribers when 754 are active?

I just checked the updated numbers, now it's 2.57k monthly active users for lemm.ee vs 958 on LW.

On !showsandmovies@lemm.ee, we actively build the community, we have a best of 2024 post, we opened the moderation posts to any person willing to help, while you keep that community unmoderated with 2 bots as mods.

Really, I just don't understand. What are you afraid of? I'm pretty sure that !mapporn@lemmy.world had more subs than !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz when it was locked down, but it was still okay, because the activity was happening on the sopuli instance.

I just checked, !electricvehicles@lemmy.world has more subscribers than !electricvehicles@slrpnk.net , but the slrpnk community was still chosen when the consolidation happened: https://lemm.ee/post/46935805

If you're afraid about losing the people, you just pin a post, point to the new community, similar to !casualconversation@lemmy.world, and that's it.

I did everything fair. "Not happy with the community? Create your own, and become the better one!". I did, everything, and while we've had success, the LW staying open hinders the growth of that topic as a whole.

You ask me to treat LW as any other instance, but no other instance is reacting in that way, preferring to keep some of their communities open when other people actively try to build an active community on a topic that apparently only a few people are interested in anyway.