Similar small Lemmy communities need to merge to survive.
Similar small Lemmy communities need to merge to survive.
Small communities that are similar should think about mushing together for activity. Example: Hiking, Backpacking, Thru Hiking. It will generate more Activity and then branch out. We have too many niche pages that won't be active.
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I see your point, and I agree that it would be nicer to just have to follow one community instead of a million smaller ones. There's always cross-posting. When you make a post and there are several communities for the same thing, post on the smallest one and then cross post it on the other ones.
Each community has a reason to exist, maybe different rules and different moderators. It's up to them to arrange a merge or the admins to archive inactive communities.
I’ve seen posters get loads of shit for sharing stuff on every community though.
People always get angry about it in the comments and complain about being spammed.
In fairness I think that's because people make multiple posts rather than just using the crosspost feature. But some mobile apps don't have crosspost yet, so here we are.
@li10 really? I've not seen that yet.
If my feed gets clogged I just block the oversharers. They tend to be the types who won't engage in the comments anyway.
Yeah, the different rules and base community are going to be a deal breaker for a lot of people.
But open communication, cross-posting (manual or automated) can sort out these situations.
Each community has a reason to exist, maybe different rules and different moderators.
This. No one is making anyone follow small communities. You can see by their stats what they are going to be like.