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this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2023
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Another ex redditor here. The issue seems to be that a lot of people created communities but never bothered to post something. Even my little ubuntu server community has nearly 90 subscribers by now.
We should work on more visible „you‘re here, what to do next“. Something like „go to communities tab, all, subscribe to each one you like“, missing any? Make them yourselves, but dont forget to post on them since very few people will subscribe to an empty community. 10-20 posts over a month should be a good start. Generally avoid bots since they dont boost interaction at all (my personal impression).
Or a reminder for people who have made communities but no posts. That would stress them a bit I suppose but I thought I‘d bring the idea to the table.
Anyway, have a good one. :)
A large issue is that what would be one subreddit is now a dozen different communities. What would fix this is allowing communities to "federate".
Let's say you had news@europe.site and europenews@lemmy.site.
The mods could have the option to consolidate with each other. Each would have to agree to the move and could revoke that access at any time. If one instance goes down, the other still retains their posts. Both of them would still exist on their own, but anything made on one would automatically be published on the other.
This could have multiple levels.
At the most basic, posts are just automatically brought over between each community. The mods can take action that only affects their local instance.
You can then add an option to federate with the other community and any community they federate with. Mods are presented with options to disallow some of those communities if they choose.
Each community can then set moderation levels and permissions. There could be an option to retain moderation on federated posts made on the other instance for their local posts. IE if europenews@lemmy.site removes a post made on europenews@lemmy.site, news@europe.site can choose to have it removed there.
You can also choose to grant full mod powers to other communities. So if europenews@lemmy.site removes any post, even one made on news@europe.site, it would automatically be removed from news@europe.site.
This would alleviate the fractures caused by multiple communities without losing the benefits of federation.
This is a really interesting idea. It would address one of the biggest hurdles I've had with full Lemmy adoption. I find a lot of the communities for many topics can be fractured with seemingly duplicative communities. It could also allow the larger user base to decrease the dependency on a particular instance.