• Do you have an idea for a new community? (It would be helpful if you provide some detail about what the community would be focused on and what sort of posts it would contain)
  • Do you have a suggested name for the community? (not required, but if you have an idea, feel free to share)
  • Do you have a suggested instance/server for the community? (some servers have significantly different views on different topics)
  • Are you willing to be a mod of this community? (not to pressure you, just to provide support, if indicated)

Also, let us know if you have any suggestions about this community or post.

Thanks to @stuartml@piefed.social for starting the ball rolling on these types of posts.

  • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Only problem, that’s easier said than done when anyone at all can start up an instance

    Maybe lemmy.world would have been less dominant if people had to use/start other instances to create communities.

    Yeah that PieFed feature is good, maybe if Lemmy supports it then people could start deleting old communities. Just gotta make sure the moves federate properly.

    • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      Maybe lemmy.world would have been less dominant if people had to use/start other instances to create communities.

      AFAIK the dev-site Lemmy.ML came first, with the message that ‘anyone can run their own Lemmy instance, and run it as they like!’ and that got the ball rolling, with the consequences to follow. The genie was out of the bottle at that point, and PieFed’s later approach is arguably the most practical way to deal with the fallout (in terms of dead communities).

      maybe if Lemmy supports it then people could start deleting old communities.

      I dunno about that. I can see an argument that the dead community is worth keeping if it has useful content. Who knows if the migrated sub won’t go dead itself, or its instance eventually goes dead, meaning that it’s better to hold the material somewhere.

      To me this kinda gets back to the idea that there’s no guarantee that any individual sub or site will last indefinitely across the FV. It’s mostly all user-supported hobbyism, and individuals will always be dropping in and dropping out. Reddit again has a huge advantage in permanency there, since it’s profit-driven and became huge.

      So the FV tools to migrate are especially important as I see it. To hop from one lily pad to another as old leaves inevitably sink…