I feel like having many communities works well on large platforms, but on smaller ones it fragments the already limited content, which in turn makes most communities inactive and reduces engagement.
I feel like having many communities works well on large platforms, but on smaller ones it fragments the already limited content, which in turn makes most communities inactive and reduces engagement.
youre not wrong. the signal has been lost on lemmy largely because ex-redditors flooded the fediverse with empty communities. soo many empty communities.
‘subreddits’/communities/magazines/groups should be created out of necessity to extract a specific signal (‘sub:toy building’) from a general-purpose feed (sub:‘general’)
then theres the whole distributed nature of the network issue which makes ‘auto subscription to general content’… interesting.
Someone make a rule that a new community is visible to the public only if it has more than 5 posts. At the very least, the person who opened the community needs to be active on it.