I mean have they seen how good Ice Cubes and Mlem look? How can they choose the default Twitter and Reddit apps over those masterpieces.
I mean have they seen how good Ice Cubes and Mlem look? How can they choose the default Twitter and Reddit apps over those masterpieces.
To add to Blaze’s point: as lemmy’s still small, there’s not much point to super specialized communities when the more general ones are “slow” enough that pretty much any post you make can remain “newest” for 2 days straight.
I understand this perspective, and I occasionally flirt with it myself, but mostly I disagree.
My main view is that content should go in a community that will be interested in it. There’s a balance to be struck here to avoid getting hyper specific (for example, I’ve stopped using [email protected] in favour of just putting train stuff in [email protected]), but I also think content that is fundamentally not about the topic of one community shouldn’t go in that community. I wouldn’t post Brisbane-specific local council politics in [email protected], for example.
My view is that subscribing to a community costs nothing. Creating a community costs nothing. Even moderating a community doesn’t have any very much cost for the moderator on a per-community (as opposed to per-post or per-comment) basis. There’s no actual harm caused by having 10 communities with 1 post per day, compared to one community with 10 posts per day. Instead, doing the former simply allows people to more easily filter for the content that they are interested in and avoid that which they are not.
I’ve given a more detailed reply to Blaze about the specific discussion at hand here, but since you brought up the general principle, I thought I’d reply to you with my general principle.
It does, to an extend. People don’t want to subscribe to dozens of different communities to get their content. As I said in the other comment, there’s a balance to be found, and usually more generic communities benefit from not having to be promoted in a lot of places to get known, people just see them from All or a post in [email protected] and subscribe because they see it as active and generic enough.
Except then the issue of community discovery gets more difficult.
Yeah that’s true, good point. I think the best option might be more dedicated communities but with strategic use of cross-posting/cross-promoting on occasion, with posts that do fit better in the general community. For example, I intend to post about major new releases of aom to broader game communities, and I will continue to mention that I’ve been playing it in threads like “what have you been playing” or other open question gaming-related threads, and put a promo for the community in those comments. But stuff that is too specific to the game, like balance patches and civ tier lists, would stay only in the specific community.
It is good to have options:-).