this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2025
5 points (85.7% liked)

Meta

826 readers
2 users here now

Yhteisö instanssia koskeville tiedotuksille, palautteelle, metakeskustelulle ja avulle. Katso myös UKK!

Community for announcements regarding the instance, feedback, meta discussion and help. Check the FAQ also!

Users needing support can also come to our Matrix Space.

Tukea tarvitsevat käyttäjät voivat myös tulla Matrix-tilaamme.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz
5
Consider deleting !python completely (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 month ago by freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz to c/meta@sopuli.xyz
3 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

The !python@sopuli.xyz community is locked and redirecting people into Cloudflare. That’s not good for privacy, digital sovereignty, and decentralisation.

I suggest either deleting it entirely (it’s empty), or redirecting to !python!python@lemmy.sdf.org.

top 3 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

While I agree with you in general, we have a few issues that are too big to ignore:

Fragmentation of communities, dead / inactive communities affecting new users' experience.

We linked those communities because they are active and have been alive for awhile so that new users find them. I know you and I know the quirks of lemmy and how to find communities, but I've seen more than enough new users all excited about lemmy but abandoning it because they can't find communities of interest and in /all feed they only see memes and politics.

But you are right the python community is empty and could be just removed.

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Facebook also likely has active communities. I personally would not promote Facebook or Cloudflare or similar technofeudal fiefdoms for any reason. But neglecting that, it might be worded in a way that’s fully informative to let people choose for themselves. E.g. something like this:

For novices who prioritise visibility and engagement above digital sovereignty and decentralisation, you can maximise engagement in Facebook or at !python@programming.dev.

For free world, we have:

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

Sorry for the delay, we thought about your suggestion and, as you suggested as an option, removed the community entirely (can be recreated if there's ever the need).