There's almost always a more deserving community that could use some good content and growth!

[cm0002@lemmy.world]

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[can@sh.itjust.works]

Yes, same for lemmy.world. If you want to post something niche and find a dead Lemmy.world community maybe consider first seeing if there's one elsewhere to revive or even make yourself (assuming you're registered somewhere else of course).

[excessshiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

This is the biggest flaw and issue with the fediverse and Lemmy, it's too damn fragmented with no good way to easily consolidate content from similar, or even identical, communities across instances. So people end up gravitating towards the same few that have the most content.

[deestan@lemmy.world]

I see the point you are trying to make, but have you considered the criminal US actions in Syria and how the US has evil imperial powers proxy wars and lobe nazis and make wars happen?

[pugjesus@lemmy.world]

Yeah, I have no problem with Lemmy.world (I mean, my main is on here), but spreading comms amongst at least a few instances is better for the overall health of the Fediverse.

[mlg@lemmy.world]

lemmy.world user

Lol they banned discussion of jury nullification despite the fact that they have no reason to so their constant complaining about ml is moot

[cm0002@lemmy.world]

Hmm, no. I have many posts and comments regarding jury nullification and Luigi in general even in .world communities and not a single has been removed. .world is based on Denmark iirc and per Denmark law, it's illegal to discuss jury nullification in regards to future crime, but not crime already committed

So in Denmark, "Let's do [crime] and then we can get people on our side to do jury nullification" is illegal, but "Person did [crime] but I think their actions were justified, so let's do jury nullification" is not.

[ryathal@sh.itjust.works]

While this is true, I think this post is more a reminder that .ml is garbage.

[elgenzay@lemmy.ml]

Worse yet, they also naively censor the r-word so if an .ml user types r*tardant it comes out as removedant

[sneezycat@sopuli.xyz]

Ah yes, the classic Scunthorpe Problem

[can@sh.itjust.works]

Also, it disregards comment language

[deestan@lemmy.world]

That's shitty. It effectively removes the ability to communicate in anything but English.

E.g. some frequently used words that are non-slurs: fag (nordics, meaning class/course), retard (french train stations will display this when trains are delayed). Living in Norway, I have frequently been frustrated when MMOs wouldn't let me talk to friends in my native language without censoring or even handing out bans.

[saintwacko@slrpnk.net]

I believe you mean clbuttic

[diva@lemmy.ml]

There's always someone on .world with an axe to grind lmao

[justas@sh.itjust.works]

... Or slut, which means end.

[bdonvr@thelemmy.club]

There's nothing wrong with .ml communities stop the stupid infighting, splitting discussion on Lemmy further will do nothing but hurt the fediverse.

[goodeye8@lemm.ee]

True, but the same issue happens with reddit as well, for example gaming vs games vs truegaming. Over time those communities either found their niche (gaming sub became mostly memes, games sub became news and discussions and truegaming tried to become a more serious discussing sub). Actually there were way more gaming subs but unless they found their niche they died out. So people gravitating towards specific communities is a natural occurrence.

As for trying to automatically consolidate communities across instances, it sounds like a great idea on paper but seems like technical she moderation headache, because you won't have a clear source of truth. Let's say instance A and instance B both have a community called news. The same news article with the same title is posted on both communities on both instances by different users. Assuming we want to consolidate those posts into one, which instance post will be shown or in more technical terms, which instance becomes the source of truth for that post? Who makes that decision? What if there's also instance C with the same community and the same post but that instance isn't federated with instance A, how do we consolidate posts? Each community has its own moderators and moderation rules, who is allowed to moderate the post? What if the moderation rules contradict between instances and both instances want to apply the rules independently, are they supposed to split the post?

Maybe there is an elegant solution to all the problems but I don't see there being one. I'm not against the idea, the problem is you want to solve its something I have given some thought and because of that I just don't see it working out the way you're imagining it.

[can@sh.itjust.works]

Exactly, I've even tested with setting my comment to French, exclusively speaking French within, and it's still filtered.

And that pissed off a couple people who just couldn't believe my motivation was anything other than desire to say slurs.

[can@sh.itjust.works]

splitting discussion on Lemmy further will do nothing but hurt the fediverse.

No one's saying defederate.

[can@sh.itjust.works]

Consolidation is still worse long term. There's not that many competing communities.