Let's not consolidate everything to .world, if it keeps happening the fediverse will just have another reddit.
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
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Agreed. @agent_karyo@piefed.world , you seem to be the main poster in the LW community, so subscribers would probably follow you wherever you go
I am good with moving over to the other comm if anything. I will ping cm000 a bit later, I am curious about their take.
I also am actively avoiding contributing to .world comms after the JL situation handling
Though I've always prioritized smaller instance comms before that, after that whole thing happened now I even make comms if there's no off-world off-.ml equivalent
I am not aware of the "JL situation", but I mind don't switching over to !OpenSourceGames@programming.dev. , so that's what I'll do moving forward.
Honestly, I just want vibrant communities on topics of interest to me that are not tied to US-style commercial social platforms.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/54940413
Honestly, I just want vibrant communities on topics of interest to me that are not tied to US-style commercial social platforms.
The Threadiverse is definitely healthier and more resistant to falling into the same kinds of traps when we spread comms across smaller instances
"Consolidation" = "keeping just the first"?
If so, I'd say it's good to have alternatives around.
Consolidation in this context means closing one community and redirecting people to another to make one more active. The fediverse is small, and so having niche(r) communities combine into one is often beneficial for them.
Don't know if you are a regular in this community, but such proposals are pretty common (and I will take the liberty of saying cm000, the main poster in the other comm, is even open to such approaches).
Even if we did have say 1 million MAUs, it still makes sense to have some sort of differentiation between communities (rules, regional focus, types of games etc.); currently there is none.
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cm0002 is very odd. I block most every version of his user and I find it hard to believe one person can manage so many user accounts and further moderate so many communities but given they have almost no unique posters that may not be hard. In this case its likely very good the communities are seperate.