I really wish lemmy added proper multi-comms, than these issues would be resolved. You would just follow a multi-comm of all these comms, and any post in any of them would appear in your feed. Then there would also be a space for a pro-GenAI /c/privacy and pro-Crypto /c/privacy, without someone having to compromise their values
this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2025
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To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks
Resources:
- https://lemmy-federate.com/ to federate your community to a lot of instances
- !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com to organize overall fediverse growth
- !reddit@lemmy.world to keep tabs on where new users might come from :)
- !newcommunities@lemmy.world
- !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
- https://lemvotes.org/
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- How (and when) to consolidate communities? (A guide)
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Coming in 1.0: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5601
Not helpful now obviously, but nice that's it's already implemented.
Piefed has those, but the majority of people are obviously still using Lemmy
I always prefer one strong community with several active people over spreading everything out. Makes it feel more coherent, maybe mods can work together, we get less cross-posts and newcomers don't need to subscribe to dozens of places, they get fewer, but more active ones instead.
I use db0
Do you have any issues with programming.dev?
Nope, just db0 felt like a good fit. It's a good instance with great admin and moderation teams. Plus it's piracy adjacent.
@cm0002@lemmy.world @otter@lemmy.ca @fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com @xle@piefed.social
I have no strong preference, I'm happy to post to both in the meantime
We can probably find a way to consolidate to one community to avoid comments separation
There is also !privacy@lemmy.ca.
That one has the more limited scope of "tips and tricks to protect your privacy", which I understand to mean that news articles about surveillance etc. aren't on-topic there (so I have been posting those only to other communities with that name).
Yes, and !privacy@lemmy.world x)
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/38851681
Well, at least !privacyguides@lemmy.one shut down since then.
programming.dev is still slow to load for me, has been for a long time
I just checked, it's as fast as other instances for me
I didn't even know that there was an effort to replace !privacy@lemmy.ml as a regular person I just prefer to post on whatever community is the biggest so if you want to rival .ml, you probably should consolidate
Not an active poster, but when I do post in privacy community it's !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com simply because programming.dev is loose with defederation. While I don't agree with certain instances political ideology something like privacy communities reach being limited because of it makes no sense.
I'll echo what others have said though that this will get resolved with multi-community support which was funded by NLnet grant. While consolidating now might seem like a good idea to help community growth, I think it's more damaging longer term than waiting for technical solution.
I had a quick look at https://programming.dev/instances , any instance you think shouldn't be there? It seems to be mostly Mastodon instances, and outdated Lemmy instances
multi-community support
We've been waiting for a while now, I guess I'm just a bit tired
yeah