Dads of Lemmy, should we consolidate the Dad communities?
Dads of Lemmy, should we consolidate the Dad communities?
Right now on Lemmy we have a bunch of dad-based communities with varying levels of discussion. From the ones I can find, we have:
[email protected] - last few posts were about a month ago. Mod was last active 10 months ago.
[email protected] - last couple posts were about 2 months ago. The post before that was about 5 months ago. Not sure about mod activity.
[email protected] - last post was yesterday, with some other posts in past few weeks. Mod was last active 6 months ago.
[email protected] - last post was a few weeks ago, with a couple months in between posts after that. Mod was last active 10 months ago.
[email protected] - last couple posts were a week ago. With about a month or so between posts after that. Both mods were last active a year ago.
[email protected] - last post was 3 months ago. Mod was last active 2 months ago.
[email protected] - last post was about a month ago, and the one before that was about 4 months ago. Mod was last active today.
To help facilitate discussion, what do you all think about consolidating the dad-based discussion to one of those groups (preferably a somewhat moderated one, which just seems to be fatherverse…) for now?
Yup, this one seems like a no-brainer: [email protected]
- Has an active mod
- Is not on LW or ml
- Has a great name
We don't often get all three.
I love the idea of a consolidated fatherverse.
You get back into reddit territory... But one place for new dads to be able to search for answers would be lovely.
When my wife became pregnant, daddit on Reddit gave me answers, support and tips for pregnancy, childbirth and bringing the rascal home.
It would be nice to have a place like that here.
It can be consolidated until the community has grown enough to split into its own niches.
I agree to the federation, just for the name of it: The Fathervers™ - that just sounds too cool!
In all seriousness: I think it would help to have one central community for dads
Dadvice is a close second. Could be a decent tag section on Fatherverse.
Yeah, I vote fatherverse, not only for the active mod but it has the best name.
Yes, makes total sense. Fatherverse sounds fine to me.
Here's all you need to know about if you should consolidate. In general, every single topic will be best suited towards having one centralized community (Lemmy gasps!). To me the power of Lemmy isn't that it IS a series of seperate instances that can interconnect. To me the power of Lemmy is that it CAN BE a series of seperate instances that can interconnect.
And here's the difference. [email protected] is a hypothetical example. Lets say it becomes active, and the mods there get big britches. Well.........maybe they enact some policy that 40% of the community there do not agree with.
They are free to create [email protected]. They can create the instance THEY want. With THEIR rules.
But until that hand is forced, why split the communities?
Agreed
@[email protected], do you need help to link this post in the different communities, with the message that [email protected] would be the main community?
Great post!
As a side comment, I started to post everyday on [email protected]
I just didn't feel like creating another community from scratch, and @[email protected] was already there as a mod, so I just used it.
I know it's not perfect as it's another LW community, but I guess that's good enough for now.
This is a great idea.
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Consolidating communities defeats part of the purpose of federation and decentralization.
Having the community on an instance other than lemmy.world and lemmy.ml is decentralizing.
The other parameter is that with 50k monthly active users, there is only so much activity on a specific topic.
Having it spread over 7 communities kills activity rather than keeping 1 community alive.
Having it spread over 7 communities kills activity rather than keeping 1 community alive.
Having three dad communities on lemmy.world is weird and needs sorting out but one of the advantages of subject-specific instances is that they can give a different spin to a topic.
On English-speaking social media, it all tends to become very US-centric - the UK (and, presumably, Canadian, and, hypothetically, an Australian one) allows for people to have more local discussion as the logistics (schools, benefits, the legal system, etc) can be very different.
By the same token, I wouldn't want all the other dad communities merged into the feddit.uk one (which is the most active, despite the Mod being AWOL, which is easily fixed) as it isn't just a general dad's discussion, although all dad's are welcome, of course.
Was thinking the same, but it would be nice to have a way to group all the similar communities together, just for viewing organization.