Fragmentation is a myth. Look at the various different technology groups that are all thriving on different instances. Stop (inadvertantly) pushing for centralization!
Fragmentation exists and depends on how many users are interested to discuss a topic.
Of course tech communities are thriving, they are the common denominators for most of the users on Lemmy.
On the other hand, if we had !football@lemmy.world , and people also posting to !soccer@lemmy.world, splitting the tiny community there is, wouldn’t you want everyone to just go to one place to keep it alive, rather than have 50% of low activity on either side?
That’s why I’m still posting to some LW communities even though I’m not a fan of having communities there.
There are only so many people interested to talk about active communities, so I create the weekly post to discuss about active communities on !newcommunities@lemmy.world , because it’s more important to get visibility for communities than to avoid this community being on lemmy.world.
I could have it on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca too, but that would mean asking everyone to comment twice, and realistically that’s not going to happen.
Being able to move away from a community thanks to federation does not mean every community should be duplicated, that’s counterproductive.
It leads to discussion fragmentation, especially when the 2 communities are the same, but still split, like !android@lemdro.id and !android@lemmy.world
Fragmentation is a myth. Look at the various different technology groups that are all thriving on different instances. Stop (inadvertantly) pushing for centralization!
Fragmentation exists and depends on how many users are interested to discuss a topic.
Of course tech communities are thriving, they are the common denominators for most of the users on Lemmy.
On the other hand, if we had !football@lemmy.world , and people also posting to !soccer@lemmy.world, splitting the tiny community there is, wouldn’t you want everyone to just go to one place to keep it alive, rather than have 50% of low activity on either side?
That’s why I’m still posting to some LW communities even though I’m not a fan of having communities there.
There are only so many people interested to talk about active communities, so I create the weekly post to discuss about active communities on !newcommunities@lemmy.world , because it’s more important to get visibility for communities than to avoid this community being on lemmy.world.
I could have it on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca too, but that would mean asking everyone to comment twice, and realistically that’s not going to happen.
Being able to move away from a community thanks to federation does not mean every community should be duplicated, that’s counterproductive.
Different people do things differently. Why do you think towns have more than one pub or shop.
Towns also merge when population gets too low to stay sustainable separated