I’m actually happy to talk about LW centralization at large. It’s a topic I like to discuss on !fedigrow, feel free to join us there.
To come back to your questions, there are different types of communities depending on how popular the topic is
very popular topics (tech, news, memes, politics) exist on Lemmy on a lot of different instances. !technology, !technology, !technology, etc. They are all active, no need to worry about those.
moderately popular topics: in this case, usually there is a large LW community, and then a smaller non-LW community. A mentioned “movies” above as an example, there is a whole list at the end of this post.
low activity topics: here, there is only one community, and it’s not that active. It is on LW, but the community is already so small that getting it active is a higher priority than bringing people to another instance. Examples: !football, !parenting, !television, !avatar
I feel like StarGate probably belongs in the third group, which is why I suggested you to consolidate with the existing LW communities.
Also, lemmy.ml have faced some powertripping complaints:
Extremely weird considering you run a generic fantasy community which already exists in many places so felt a little kettle/pot.
Interesting, I had actually forgotten about that community, which is why the last post there is 2 months ago. I’ll probably close it in the coming weeks and redirect elsewhere, after asking the community feedback.
On the other hand, I actively post to all of the following communities, to try to keep them off LW
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Technology - news, analyzes, opinions or commentary about technology, social media platforms, informational technologies and tech policy (lemmy.zip)
Community: !technology...
Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities (media.gehirneimer.de)
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Stanford Internet Observatory rejects media reports it is shutting down, but acknowledges funding challenges (cyber.fsi.stanford.edu)
Archived link...
Scam Numbers - Reddit's (and possibly the internet's) largest scam number depository, now on Lemmy! (lemmy.zip)
With almost 40k subscribers on Reddit, r/ScamNumbers is one of the most useful online databases for tracking down scam phone numbers. Some use the information for awareness, while others take advantage by prank calling scammers to waste their time....