Hi guys,
let me be upfront and blunt, just so this issue gets addressed early on.
There are two communities on two differnt servers. feddit.org/c/BuyFromEU and feddit.uk/c/buyeuropean. They significantly differ in daily traffic/contributers and amount of moderators.
One user of feddit.uk is quite vocal about his community being the real deal and puts a lot of effort in onboarding redditors in his community.
Acknowledging the viewpoint and reason ( META Discussion ), I don’t like how he is kind of overstepping placing his solution in any context, like it is the only real deal.
His arguments might be valid in some points, but the style is really poor.
Nonetheless, unmoderated communities without traction fade out by themselves and don’t need artificial accelration.
To be honest it is upto @[email protected] what to do with this community and to see if he wants to step up and put more moderators in place, or not.
I would prefer to have both communities to evolve in whatever directory they are heading, without interfering.
In the end informed people can subscribe to both and decide for themselves where they want to contribute.
Edit: one user, not moderator.
Hello,
- I’m not a mod of [email protected]
- That Reddit post’s objective was to onboard Redditors on Lemmy as a whole. The only time [email protected] is mentioned is in links with Mbin and Piefed, the other examples use [email protected]
- Community consolidation is needed to avoid decision fatigue and discussion splintering.
Example from a few months ago: https://lemm.ee/post/46935805
There have been parallel communities existing without a clear winner for a very long time
- [email protected] and [email protected]
- [email protected] and [email protected]
- [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected]
- [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] (there was even a recent meme about this one on [email protected] )
Communities need to be actively consolidated for people to converge on one community. Examples of closed communities
- [email protected] in favour of [email protected]
- [email protected] for [email protected]
- [email protected] for [email protected]
This is not a case of [email protected] vs [email protected]. The two BuyEuropean communities look very similar, and the instances have similar moderation policies.
Edit: another example from today: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39000941?scrollToComments=true