To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks
As a side comment, I started to post everyday on !parenting@lemmy.world
I just didn't feel like creating another community from scratch, and @Tot@lemmy.world was already there as a mod, so I just used it.
I know it's not perfect as it's another LW community, but I guess that's good enough for now.
Yup, this one seems like a no-brainer: !fatherverse@midwest.social
We don't often get all three.
Yeah, I vote fatherverse, not only for the active mod but it has the best name.
I love the idea of a consolidated fatherverse.
You get back into reddit territory... But one place for new dads to be able to search for answers would be lovely.
When my wife became pregnant, daddit on Reddit gave me answers, support and tips for pregnancy, childbirth and bringing the rascal home.
It would be nice to have a place like that here.
It can be consolidated until the community has grown enough to split into its own niches.
Consolidating communities defeats part of the purpose of federation and decentralization.
Having the community on an instance other than lemmy.world and lemmy.ml is decentralizing.
The other parameter is that with 50k monthly active users, there is only so much activity on a specific topic.
Having it spread over 7 communities kills activity rather than keeping 1 community alive.
Encourage cross posting. The function is viable, and when it's used, it not only improves each community individually, it keeps awareness of other options.
The only thing "killing activity" is people nodding being unaware of cross posting existing and/or using it.
Crossposts don't aggregate comments. If you ask "How was your father's day" on 7 dad communities, you are going to split the answers across the 7 communities.
Comments don't need aggregation.
Look, we obviously have a difference in philosophy of the fediverse here.
So, let me back up a second and explain that.
The fediverse should be about communities being disparate. No single instance, no single mod or admin owning an idea, or the consequent community that forms around an idea. Part of why reddit became so horrible was the inability to have a viable alternative community around a subject when one went off the rails because someone had total control over a word, like "parenting", or "knives" or "gaming".
The more you consolidate communities, the more you give fewer entities control of a idea/concept/subject.
Comment aggregation is nice, if all you want is a single feed to scroll through, but the price of it is too high.