How many people do you know IRL who are not in tech and use Reddit ?

Personally everyone I know is on TT/IG, only the tech people are on Reddit

https://lemmy.world/modlog?userId=332441

So stop trying to kill it then.

It’s the opposite of killing it.

Example: a question asked on !android rather than !askAndroid: https://l.lemdro.id/post/8306421

145 comments

Another one, question on !android: https://l.lemdro.id/post/77457 - 190 comments

https://l.lemdro.id/c/askandroid?dataType=Post&sort=MostComments never got more than 51 comments

Activity brings activity

This is the same as in the football threads where you post with good intentions and get zero responses. You’re aiming for the wrong things.

Exactly, and if someone had an “AskFootball” community where there would be 2 posts per week, I would also invite them to consolidate with the main Football community

The Reddit-style text-based forums are becoming more and more of a niche market.

People nowadays scroll videos on TikTok and IG, almost nobody is using Reddit itself

Huh? What alt? Banned where?

https://lemmy.world/post/2318814/1829816

And this is what I’m talking about when I talk about ego. The Ask Android community is there to enable people to ask questions and find answers, you don’t post there and yet you want to close it for your own vanity.

Why is wanting !android@lemdro.id to succeed vanity? I’m not the main mod there (I have an alt mod, but that was to created pinned posts). I just want the community to be active, the whole platform to be active.

So let it be a ghost town. Again, there’s many good communities that aren’t the biggest on Lemmy and they’re a success.

Ghost towns get consolidated regularly (https://lemmy.zip/post/36169152)

!askandroid@lemdro.id reflects the Reddit structure, but !android@lemdro.id never got the activity level to justify the split: https://lemmy.zip/post/36094729

What makes them a success, the fact that people go back and enjoy them.

I’m not sure people enjoy getting their questions removed from !android@lemdro.id: https://l.lemdro.id/modlog/47 . I quickly checked, they don’t post the removed questions elsewhere.

Those are literally all of the users I’m trying to avoid. My great Lemmy experience relies on me not having to come across those people.

Those are most of the people. You mention vanity and integrity, but you are also shaping the platform in a certain, as we all do, by our actions.

I want Lemmy. I don’t want Blaze’s Lemmy or my Lemmy, I just wanna Lemmy. Not everything needs you or my fingerprints on it.

There are only so many of us around here. You posting to !gunners@lemmy.world has an impact on the platform. People posting, not posting, opening new communities, closing some, moderating. Every action has an impact on the platform. There’s no abstract “Lemmy”, it’s only the result of the users actions and decisions.

Everyone should be able to make suggestions on how communities are run. It doesn’t mean that other people have to listen (as I stated previously, for me the core factor will be what people want to do, and that’s why I wanted to ask on !askandroid@lemdro.id ).

If you were trying to consolidate android@lw and android@lemdroid and android@whatever I could see where you’re coming from, but you’re literally just being a community Nazi. I can’t support that.

!askandroid is a subset of !android. Not sure why you make such a distinction.

Edit: I just found a post I made a while ago about this exact question: https://l.lemdro.id/post/17408578?scrollToComments=true

There was no clear winner between keeping the communities split or merge them.

So it’s Lemdroid’s responsibility to pander?

They were created as an alternative to LW (https://lemmy.world/post/2318814 - ironically, I saw one of your alts then banned, seems like the LW mods didn’t appreciate your posts), so in a sense, yes? But I’ll probably just open a post on !askandroid@lemdro.id to see what people over there think.

Says who?

All comments you see mentioning “every time I look for a community on Lemmy to ask a question, it’s a ghost town”.

!selfhosted@lemmy.world

!gunners@lemmy.world

You care about defederation and moderation policies. Most users just go for the community with the higher number of subs / MAU. This is the main reason why !privacy@lemmy.ml and !linux@lemmy.ml are still the largest communities by far while !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com and !linux@programming.dev exist.

In a way, you show it yourself with the second. You have to go to !gunners@lemmy.world because it’s the only active community. If there was a similarly active gunners community elsewhere, wouldn’t you post and comment there instead?

If we want decentralization, the non-LW/ml communities have to be better, otherwise network effect just brings people there naturally.

If you prefer not to interfere with that, that’s okay, but I’m not sure why criticizing people who try to (and it’s not only me, you see other people like @threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works doing a great job consolidating inactive communities: https://lemmy.zip/post/40774008) helps with decentralization.

I like the admin team and the community of Lemdroid.

But we’re both part of that community. Me suggesting something to you isn’t something that happens in a vacuum, it’s two regular poster of the community/instance who discuss where posts are made.

I’m not chasing numbers of trying to act like ActivityPub Jesus, first and foremost is cultivating my good time without letting my ego get in the way.

The first prerequisite to have a good time is to have people to interact with. This has been know for a while: https://lemmy.zip/post/14347368

The SteamDeck uses Linux. It took 20 years, but it’s still something.

The SteamDeck uses Linux. It took 20 years, but it’s still something.

If people don’t like the way Lemdroid is run, LW is there or any other instance is there and available.

Then LW will keep being the centralized instance with the vast majority of communities.

I don’t post in football to create content or make it look busy, I post there because I love football.

That doesn’t answer the question: what is an adequate level of detail for an Android community?

People probably love Android too, but don’t want to post to a community where there are 7 post in a month, and with 87 monthly active users compared to !android@lemmy.world which has 1590 MAU (!android@lemdro.id has 3k, but we already know questions aren’t allowed there)

I meant that people can go to another instance.

I’m surprised, as I know you’re against centralization of large instances, but this would mean to basically tell people to go to Lemmy.world to have a general Android community.

And for the record, you’re not attempting to consolidate, you’re attempting to artificially fluff.

Not sure what you mean. We both post on !football@sopuli.xyz. Is using a general football community “artificially fluffing”, compared to using !premierleague@instance, !seriea@instance, !bundesliga@instance ?

My stance is that using a general football community is good based on the amount of regular posters. I think it should be the same for Android.

Yeah I totally get ya, and I’m just chiming in with what I’ve seen before and the best people to ask are the subscribers themselves.

Should I open a thread on !askandroid@lemdro.id to see what subscribers there think?

Any other comment on what was said?

for what.

To make the platform grow, so that at some point very popular topics like Android, Football or Lego do not rely on a single person for activity.

The main criticism potential new joiners have towards Lemmy is that it’s confusing, because communities exist every twice (!android@lemdro.id vs !android@lemmy.world ) , causing https://lawsofux.com/choice-overload/

Letting communities exist doesn’t work when the main competitor is Reddit that has been established for 15 years. Small communities start, the main poster shouts into the void for a while, then stops posting and leaves the platform. That’s the whole motivation behind !fedigrow@lemmy.zip

When Reddit started, there were no subreddits. There was a single feed, and everything was there. Then, when there was enough activity, general subreddits started.

You call it micromanaging, but there needs to be some consolidation at some point for the platform to be sustainable.

People that want to go to the biggest community can.

They can’t, in this case, because !android@lemdro.id rules prevents support questions to be asked.

The Piefed developers don’t have backdoor access to remote communities.

What they have access to, is that communities they want to promote during the onboarding process, but that’s not much more different than Lemmy already allowing admins to have “default blocks” for new joiners: https://lemmy.zip/post/33065677

With 7 posts last month, the Help Vampires are probably not in !askandroid@lemdro.id either:

https://lemmy.world/c/android has a few of them, but on average it’s one post per day.

I worry even if the numbers are small now, if we consolidate things into a bucket we’re likely to end up in the same situation again having to redirect the noise so to speak and going round in circles reopening it 🤷‍♀️

But then we would just reopen it? It would be a one-time action, not a circle?

As we know, due to the way Lemmy shows crossposts, the larger community will usually get most of the comments and reactions, while the others won’t get much.

Recent example

• https://europe.pub/post/1078124 (post on !buyeuropean@feddit.uk )
• https://europe.pub/post/1106056 (crosspost on !BuyFromEU@europe.pub )

I already suggested the Lemdro.id admins to lock a few of their communities, even !askandroid@lemdro.id could just redirect to !android@lemdro.id for now, it’s not like any of them are that active besides the main one: https://l.lemdro.id/communities

That’s incorrect, I don’t know why the person you’re replying too is thinking this

, I don’t see anything notable about the software, and to the degree that it differs from lemmy or mbin,

• consolidated comment view for all crossposts
• actual instance blocking
• multicommunities
• keyword filters

You could maybe even go a step further and post F-Droid content directly on !android@lemdro.id

It’s not that busy anyway, and already has quite a few subscribers

I will check, but IIRC downvotes on ignored communities aren’t accounted either

As much as public modlogs are required, the lack of accountability of some mods repeatedly reported for power tripping makes me question sometimes if all of this is not in vain.

!privacy@lemmy.ml is still the most popular privacy community

!world@lemmy.world is still the most popular world news community

On the other hand, there are several features that Lemmy always ignored, and that exist on Piefed

• consolidated comment view for all crossposts
• actual instance blocking
• multicommunities
• keyword filters