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Following the other post, which lemmy.ml communities don't have alternatives on other instances? (reddthat.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Following the other thread (550 upvotes and 366 comments at the moment: https://lemmy.world/post/16211417), one of the complaints that people had what that some communities only exist on lemmy.ml and don't have alternatives on other instances.

Let's discuss this and see if we can organize together.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (11 children)

I think the problem is not so much that "communities don't exist", but that they are far less popular and active than the lemmy.ml ones, and when presented with a choice new users will typically choose the community that is more active and has the most subs. You can't simply solve that by creating another community on another instance. A concerted effort would be needed to get people to move and to get them to pick the alternative community over the lemmy.ml one. Raising awareness and defederation by bigger instances (like lemmy.world) would help immensely.

For me the big ones are [email protected] and [email protected] btw, which do exist elsewhere but the alternatives are stale.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

https://programming.dev/c/programmer_humor seems pretty active? Edit: nice link [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Indeed, it is.

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