Very cool

Thanks for sharing your experience. I see your posts every day, impressive

There are many communities that are similar on different instances, firefox for example.

Sometimes they are identical and should merge, sometimes due to the specific audience of the instance, it's better to keep them separate.

I wouldn't suggest merging !movies@lemmy.world and !movies@hexbear.net

Would be nice if lemmy supports something like multi Reddit with the option of hiding duplicate posts.

Mbin does support multireddits, but this doesn't seem to be interesting enough for people to switch to it (while Lemmy communities are fully accessible from Mbin)

Sopuli is currently 5 days behind LW: https://grafana.lem.rocks/d/cdfzs0dwal3pca/federation-health-time-behind?orgId=1&var-instance=lemmy.world&var-remote_instance=sopuli.xyz&var-remote_software=All&from=now-7d&to=now

Another reason to not centralize everything there

I still see some people posting to their local versions of the Lemmy.film communities

(!movies@lemm.ee for movie and TV shows discussions BTW)

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

Definitely, but I guess the amount of sysadmins wanting to operate a lemmy instance is limited. Add to that the CSAM and other nasty stuff that happened at the beginning, and only a few people would be okay to manage their own instance.

Also, even a topic-focused instance would suffer from the lack of population. How many interesting topic can you find for a population of 50k? That can't be too precise, because you are talking to a very small population. Well, I guess that's why db0 and slrpnk are doing well, piracy and solarpunk are popular among Lemmy users (as well as whatever the political stance of lemmy.ml is)

Yes, it's kind of strange. I have been trying to correct that with recents posts in !pics@lemmy.world and !interestingasfuck@lemm.ee.

We are 50k people here, don't tell me there is no one that likes other stuff that the one you listed.

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

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

Thanks for sharing

Question for you: how are we going to attract people to Lemmy communities such as this one if all we have to offer is communities with a few OC posts and nothing else? You need content to attract content, nobody (except I guess "repost bots" like me) likes to post to empty or inactive communities.

Lemmy has a content problem, we all would like to have only OC content here, but that's not going to happen magically.

This picture is a screenshot from Twitter, so it wasn't even "OC" when it was first posted on Reddit.

Finally, comments like you just demotivates people like me who try to keep this community and others active. Quoting the second rule of this community

2 Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.