this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
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No, considering how small the fediverse is, it needs to be more active. And you get that by having 20 users in 1 place rather than 10 over here, and 10 over there.
When the fediverse gets to a point where Lemmy has hundreds of millions of users, THEN it'll have the life force to support duplicate communities.
On that topic, there's this thread that can interest you: https://lemmy.world/post/26618223
Man this does not make you look good. Like, they told you to stop.
I don't agree with their perspective on this, and I think we should in general be trying to consolidate communities right now, but if the mods told you to stop, you should have laid off it for a while at least.
I'm a mod here. If I were to tell you to stop commenting here "because the mod team decided so", how would you react? That's the whole point of !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com , to call out power tripping mods
You don't need hundreds of millions of users, though. You only need a few dozen users active in each community to make them worth while. A couple of hundred makes them downright vibrant.
Reddit-like communities with hundreds of thousands of users are a waste, and become nearly impossible to moderate effectively.
A few dozen active posters is a lot by Lemmy standards. Popular topics like !movies@lemm.ee have less than 10.