Update as I know this comment is linked to from time to time: we discussed about this with Gabe on Matrix, he was okay to keep the community here. Proof of this: he appointed one of my alts as a moderator of the community, which he probably wouldn’t have done if he wasn’t approving our community being here.

First link doesn’t lead anywhere?

Thank you for calling to calm

I meant hardcore leftists

The PDev version is better anyway.

I have a few communities that are still on .ml, I forgot you guys were defederated, maybe I should move them elsewhere

.ml is okay to discuss Linux, the overlap between the two communities makes sense

Sure unless your instance is defederated, we need more ways to control the content without relying on defederation

Hopefully defederation will happen less and less with 19.X allowing users to block instances themselves

I’m in plenty of communities where there are lots of low value posts that would normally be consolidated into a single stickied post for the community but there isn’t a large enough userbase to make a stickied post worthwhile despite there being multiple communities for that topic.

Any examples of those? What prevents those communities from merging?

I do think it would be nice if there was a way for community mods to choose to combine two communities across instances,

If they are willing to cooperate that far, they could as well merge the communities

What would help is that people stopped trying to find a “canonical place” to put content and just went on to put content without much worry. I have been basically posting on [email protected] by myself. Would it be nice if more people posted? Yes. Do you think I will just give up because it’s been six months and no one else cared to post there? Of course not.

Today I learned about this community, seems interesting

There isn’t one “most active one” because federation isn’t perfect and every instance sees a different number of users/posts.

Number of users is pretty similar in my experience, with an average difference between 2 and 10 users.

Do you have an example? Because all the evidence shows that people want to be seen when they post, and will naturally gravitate towards the most active communities, except if they are against the instance the most active community is.

In this case, it’s the first, which is obvious based on the number of subscribers and active users. You don’t even need a third party tool, it’s literally in the sidebar

That seems promising

I appreciate the effort, but what is happening is option 1, aka merging of communities, naturally.

About knowing where to post, you can usually have a look at https://lemmyverse.net/communities, search the community name, and have a good idea of which one is the most active.

Sometimes different communities can coexist, and that’s fine. [email protected] and [email protected] have different audiences, and that’s okay.

That’s a nice roadmap

To put in concrete terms: I wouldn’t have any problem to create a HP community on a topic-specific instance like https://metacritics.zone. @[email protected], would you be interested in that? I can make you mod if you want.

Keep it easy, I think a community such as [email protected] is more than sufficient for now

Seems to be working alright

You might have to click the link twice, sometimes the first time the community isn’t found because you are the first one on your instance to search for it

One link that works: https://lemmy.radio/c/[email protected]

For hobbies, depends, but there is the general pinned post in [email protected] which list a lot of crafting communities: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/842186

For parenting: [email protected]

Politics, you should be able to find a lot by searching that word into https://lemmyverse.net/

Finance? [email protected]

The thing is that people tend to post links as you can’t really force people to post if they don’t want to (or if they critical mass isn’t there). I’m guilty of that in the [email protected] for instance, as I don’t have kids yet, I can only but post articles.