To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks
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You can ask on !community_requests@lemmy.ml to get mod rights on the community. It's better to use a local account as some moderation features can be a bit finicky with remote accounts.
Usually what I recommend is opening a meta thread to ask the community what they want. You can see what I did in !dundermifflin@lemmy.ml
I see. I guess I will just start a thread on the ML community and see if there is any interest in consolidation.
Sounds good! I have an lemmy.ml alt, if at some point you reach an agreement on locking down the community I can do it for you with that alt.
Community consolidation is antithetical to how the fediverse works. If you want to increase the number of users in your community then work on increasing the number and quality of posts, and mention the community in related spaces. Please don't attempt hostile takeovers of communities on other instances just because they have the same name.
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.
You only need a few dozen users active in each community to make them worth while.
A few dozen active posters is a lot by Lemmy standards. Popular topics like !movies@lemm.ee have less than 10.