So which one is actually official one? I can’t describe what “official” mean here, maybe the one that actually came from reddit or the one with more subsscribers or one with more activity ? https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/b9477130-57ce-49a1-9f00-cb5567978b6d.png...
I like to think of instances as countries. Each instance has its own rules and culture, and that affects how the communities are moderated. For example, the beehaw.org instance is heavily moderated compared to lemmy.world. Continuing with our example, the Technology community on beehaw.org will be moderated differently than the Technlology community on Lemmy.world.
So each instance has its own reason for existing. Another example will be lemmynsfw.com which is an 18+ instance. Basically, when you register in an instance, you become a citizen of that country.
So in summary, each instance has its own rules, its own policies, its own culture, and the moderators of the community that is that instance are bound by them. So [email protected] is not the same as [email protected].
Following the other thread (550 upvotes and 366 comments at the moment: lemmy.world/post/16211417), one of the complaints that people had what that some communities only exist on lemmy.ml and don’t have alternatives on other instances....
If you want an example of community consolidation between different servers, there is !unixporn and !unixporn. Most of the activity if happening on lemmy.ml, and there was a backlash when the mods from the sub wanted to takeover the lemmy.world community. Both are still open, but someone who wants to post would see that the LW isn’t as active as the .ml, and post to the latter.
About your point, there are two things at hand.
First, the technical possibility of it happening. It has been linked elsewhere, the Lemmy devs are not interested in this. Kbin has it, somehow, but the userbase is now on Lemmy, and I don’t see it moving the Kbin/Mbin, except if they surpass Lemmy in features. Maybe sublinks will have this, we’ll see.
But beyond the technical aspect, there is also the “political” aspect. People who don’t like communities on LW are not going to enjoy being forced to have their content shared to LW communities too. People who avoid Lemmy.ml due to the political stance of the users are also not going to be happy to discuss with the people they are trying to avoid.
The point is that Lemmy has been around for some months now, people know each others, the other servers, and more or less where everyone stands. If people keep communities separated, there is a reason, and it’s not going to be solved by technical measures.
!unixporn is the reference. !unixporn still exists, but has much less activity. There was some backlash at the time about the subreddit mods wanting to take over the .lw community, so everybody fled to .ml
Following the last thread about some update of the description (lemmy.ml/post/3724195), I just wanted to point out that there only moderator we have has been unheard since 8 days (last comment was here: lemmy.ml/comment/2503991)...
Hey all! Mod team of r/unixporn here. After a couple weeks of work on our end, we finally have a Lemmy community at LemmyWorld that we’re committing to moderating in the long run. Additionally, due to Lemmy’s federation, you should be able to crosspost between here and there even if you don’t have an account on LemmyWorld....
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !unixporn
Official Unixporn Community ?
So which one is actually official one? I can’t describe what “official” mean here, maybe the one that actually came from reddit or the one with more subsscribers or one with more activity ? https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/b9477130-57ce-49a1-9f00-cb5567978b6d.png...
Following the other post, which lemmy.ml communities don't have alternatives on other instances?
Following the other thread (550 upvotes and 366 comments at the moment: lemmy.world/post/16211417), one of the complaints that people had what that some communities only exist on lemmy.ml and don’t have alternatives on other instances....
Lemmy Needs to Fix Its Community Separation Problem (popcar.bearblog.dev)
I made a blog post on my biggest issue in Lemmy and the proposed solutions for it. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
[Meta] Now that the description of this community has been updated from "ricers" to "themers", should someone point that out to [email protected]?
[Meta] Just a heads up that we are not really being moderated anyway
Following the last thread about some update of the description (lemmy.ml/post/3724195), I just wanted to point out that there only moderator we have has been unheard since 8 days (last comment was here: lemmy.ml/comment/2503991)...
Stop! and proceed... (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
My favourites are !kerala and !linuxmemes See sub.rehab or lemmyverse.net/communities to search for communities
Official Unixporn Community on LemmyWorld (lemmy.ml)
Hey all! Mod team of r/unixporn here. After a couple weeks of work on our end, we finally have a Lemmy community at LemmyWorld that we’re committing to moderating in the long run. Additionally, due to Lemmy’s federation, you should be able to crosspost between here and there even if you don’t have an account on LemmyWorld....