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Same !

Same here

I discuss the topic regularly on !fedigrow@lemmy.zip, I also brought it up in another topic just now (https://lemmy.world/post/33886241/18608911)

Reading the comments here, it seems like a lot of people would like their niche community to be active, but we have to acknowledge that with our current userbase, more general communities are already struggling to stay active, so niche ones are even harder.

Example: !movies@piefed.social is kept up active by less than 5 active posters, and that’s a generic community about movies.

!cooking@lemmy.world is probably good enough for all types of cooking, you get the idea.

Those are examples of similar communities that will probably never merge. The Android ones have been coexisting for more than 2 years now, and none of them is "winning.

This gives https://lawsofux.com/choice-overload/ to new joiners

“Where should I post? Those two communities look the same, one has more active users but the other one has more subscribers. Well, this is too confusing, guess I’ll just go back to Reddit”

It should indeed be possible, but there is bigger fish to fry at the moment

I’m a Piefed enthusiast, but I miss Lemmy UI

At the moment we have a few famous examples of similar communities coexisting

• !android@lemdro.id vs !android@lemmy.world
• !movies@piefed.social vs !movies@lemmy.world
• !privacy@programming.dev , !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com and !privacy@lemmy.world
• !buyeuropean@feddit.uk vs !buyfromeu@feddit.org vs !BuyFromEU@europe.pub

All of those communities have similar rules, there’s nothing distinguishing them (!privacy@lemmy.ml for instance is different) except that mods never bothered to agree on a single place

Locking a community still allows people to comment under the pinned post, so if there’s any interest to revive that community it can be done that way

At the moment we have a few famous examples

• !android@lemdro.id vs !android@lemmy.world
• !movies@piefed.social vs !movies@lemmy.world
• !privacy@programming.dev , !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com and !privacy@lemmy.world
• !buyeuropean@feddit.uk vs !buyfromeu@feddit.org vs !BuyFromEU@europe.pub

All of those communities have similar rules, there’s nothing distinguishing them (!privacy@lemmy.ml for instance is different) except that mods never bothered to agree on a single place

• you can’t get a Toyota on top of your Huyndai in 5 minutes, you can create a Piefed account and import your Lemmy settings in 5 minutes
• a lot of people aren’t aware about Piefed, and how compatible it is with Lemmy

Locked with a pinned post to a more active community https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/39199203

Piefed has multicommunities https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list

Piefed has instance blocking that blocks users, and supports Voyager https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list

Piefed has that https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list

Piefed has that https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list

They should just be locked down until we have a bigger userbase

The topic comes up regularly on !fedigrow@lemmy.zip

PieFed has that

PieFed has keyword filters and multicommunities

Piefed has flairs for both posts and users