!AskUSA@discuss.online

Feel free to call power tripping mods out on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I’m okay with the tradeoff

The Lemmy Web UI has an autocomplete function for communities names

https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1huklly/happy_new_year_how_is_your_alternative_doing/

There’s typically a surge of posts which attracts users from /all and /new, but those users eventually filter out as the content slows down.

We’ll see!

Most people aren’t going to follow power posters to the ends of the earth, they’ll simply engage with the content that is most readily available to them, and they really don’t want to bother with splinter communities and moderation drama.

There’s definitely several factors at hand. If only a few power posters move away, then the old community will probably stay prevalent. If there’s no more content, it will die. You mention All and New, and those are definitely where people see the new communities. It’s not the end of the world, some users might not even notice the community change and just vote/comment on the top posts of the day, wherever they are.

But there is indeed the network effect. !linux@lemmy.ml is still the main Linux community, even though !linux@programming.dev and !linux@lemmy.world exist.

As a side note, !sideoftheroad@lemmy.today are not moving for fun or to avoid power tripping. They are moving because the instance of their old community is closing.

So it’s rather nice to see them successfully moving that way, as unfortunately it will probably happen again in the future for other instances

!remindme to check their activity numbers 6 months from now and see how they compare. Hopefully it will be higher but I wouldn’t bet on it.

Why do you want to check in 6 months? They moved 3 days ago, up to that point they were still posting on the old one, so the 6 months activity for the old community is all the activity there was. Or am I missing something?

Without knowing anything about what went down

https://sh.itjust.works/post/29284968?scrollToComments=true

You can have a look and assess whether that was “major” enough. But that’s the way activity works on Lemmy: the people posting are free to go to another community whenever they want, and when they leave, the old community usually dies.

https://discuit.net/DiscuitMeta/post/HCHvcmBc

There was one comment that was derogatory, but in hundreds, that’s pretty low

they’ve still only gotten to around 20% of their original subscriber base.

Not sure that’s relevant. They used to have 915 active users for the last 6 months on the old one, they just reached 937 for this month on the new one, so I guess most of the people interested moved. Subscribers numbers are inflated as a large number of accounts aren’t active anymore.

Major communities (c/memes, c/greentext, c/news, even something like c/eurographicnovels) cannot be quickly rebuilt in such a manner, you inevitably have to start from scratch.

Why not? The main issue with the first version of a community is to get enough people in the same place. Once this is achieved, you can just announce that you are going to move, point to the new community, and then post the new content on the new community.

It even happens now with !lotrmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com which was created after some powertripping by the admin of !lotrmemes@midwest.social. In this case, it’s a bit different, as both communities are still open, but the fact that most of the people who posted to the old community switched to the new is enough to give the new community 2.85k monthly active users, while the old one only has 2.72k.

No need to transfer the old content, give the votes, and all of that. People just want to be where the new content is posted.

It’s definitely better to have the existing mods onboard than to try to compete with the existing community, which is why I asked you.

Not sure if you ping went through, so I’ll ping @Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world too.

Still a bit surprised you guys don’t have discussions regarding the community, that’s usually how we do it in the ones I mod, but you do you.

Stop trying to be unique, you’re not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Conventions_worldwide

Lemmy.sdf.org

Seems a bit abandoned: https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/16308848

Why not go to Discuit and their 194 weekly active users if you want a fully centralized initiative?

As much as federeation gets criticized on Lemmy (and to be fair, it brings some issues), the numbers still show that Lemmy is the most successful Reddit alternative. By far.

and that takes a long time to build back up.

Can be done in a few days if you warn the community beforehand and keep them informed where to go.

!sideoftheroad@lemmy.today is a good recent example from !sideoftheroad@possumpat.io

Have a look at !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

A few threads mention LW mods powertripping

It is very concerning that most active communities are in LW or Lemmy.ml.

Any plans to move !asklemmy@lemmy.world to another instance?

Why? It’s still there, just under the old account

I’m European. I still prefer not to qualify 300 millions of people as idiots.