Back with newsgroups the general rule was to go from general to specific. You start with a general discussion group and when discussions about video games get annoying you create a games group. If then there are too many Baldur’s Gate discussions you create BG. If they are dominated by Baldur’s Gate 3 you create a Baldur’s Gate 3 group. If everyone is fawning over Withers you create a Withers group which of course will be flooded with discussion about the Withers’ tits mod, which shall get its own group.
Meaning you should create a group when demand is there and not the other way around.
I can definitely see the value in this. Just to use [email protected] as an example, there’s still little enough activity as it is. And if they tried to create separate communities for every series and movie and cartoon like it was on Reddit, instead of just one community with not enough activity, there would be 10+ completely dead communities.
And on that note, I’m still keeping an eye out for this general alternative community that was being floated the other day. Because while it’s nice having communities specifically for punk, goth, industrial etc, I think that right now it would be even nicer to have a general purpose alt community where people can discuss anything from music to style to attitude.
Did anything happen on that regard? @[email protected] @[email protected]
You mean [email protected] ? Yeah that’s there, I think when it was announced a lot of people disparaged it bc the community is on a pro-MAGA server, looks like the announcements were even removed (details).
One problem with an “alternative” general community is that, say, punk plays a big part of some people’s identity and life philosophy but they may not identify as “alternative”.
Yeah I saw that the thread had been deleted but before that, something gave me the impression that it was going to get remedied or moved to another instance. Pretty disappointing to hear that seems to just be the end of that, to say the least.
@[email protected] and @[email protected] (can’t ping Alice as my instance defederates HC), would you want to move a general alt community elsewhere? @[email protected] , would you like to help building the community?
Nah, we just rebooted [email protected] and have several daily posters now, I’d rather build on that than move and start all over again. Besides, there’s a lot of “alt” stuff that doesn’t really speak to me, so if everyone moved I’d just stay behind and wait for it to come to life again. (In fact, being alone on a dead community is kinda goth, lel.)
Hey, if you’re looking for communities to merge, [email protected] and [email protected] are both mildly alive, and their mods have been absent for a year or two.
Thanks Alice has worked really hard on her community and there’s loads of posts there, so it’s not moving. Starting from scratch would throw that away. 😊
Yeah looks like that’s not going to happen lol. At least in this current wave of users. Feel like that’s the second time in recent weeks that my wish for more of certain things on Lemmy has been granted by a monkey’s paw because those things are here but I’m locked out anyway lol.
I have been thinking of shopping around instances again but either way, I’m not interested in associating with MAGAs on a seemingly well known MAGA instance that appropriate subcultures that are all about freedom, individuality and non-conformity while simultaneously condemning anyone that doesn’t conform and supporting politicians that make those people’s non-conformity illegal.
I’m not willing to ‘meet in the middle’ with these people, in fact I’m not even sure what the ‘middle’ of respecting human rights and individual freedom or not respecting human rights and individual freedom is even supposed to look like. Maybe it looks like being ‘punk’ or ‘goth’ or ‘metal’ but choosing to hold hands with the nazis instead of punching them.
And I don’t want to start anything but the fact that the big reveal that this instance is Exploding Heads 2.0 didn’t result in immediate plans for the community to be moved is kinda eyebrow raising to me. And making me wonder about a couple of things here and do a bit of reassessing of the situation…
That all said, I’m not the moderator type. But as someone that doesn’t really ever fit in anywhere and so prefers the banner of ‘alternative’ to choosing some specific subculture or way, I would gladly interact and help however I could if I community like that popped up somewhere that people can go and feel safe that they’re not going to be harassed by bigots. But I’ll wait to see if that happens with the next wave of new users in this place.
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