Possible merge with c/world, thoughts? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

23 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Over the past week or two, I've been discussing merging this community with c/world. The intents and purposes of both of these communities are essentially the same, and we don't really see a reason to divide that community rather than just put it all under one roof.

We're open to any and all opinions on this, and nothing is set in stone so please feel free to reply candidly.

Please speak up especially if you feel like:

You wouldn't like this for really any reason
You feel this community already serves a different purpose
You feel this community could serve a different purpose, and include what changes you'd like to see to meet that goal.

I work with the head mod of c/world, @[email protected], on c/NFL and talk to him regularly, we're both pretty much on the same page about everything and moderate communities in a similar manner, so if your only reservation would be possible stricter or different moderation, I hope that alleviates some of the concern. All of the mods from here would also be welcome to join over there if we do merge.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

What do you mean by a merge?

If you're considering locking this community down and turning it into a permanent redirect to c/world, please don't. You would essentially be parking this community name for no good purpose.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

That's fair, but do you really feel there needs to be two co-existing communities for the same thing with less than 5k people in this one?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think they serve two different purposes. "World news" is literally event by event news, "world" can be more discussion-oriented (edit: well, except that they... only allow news articles, geez).

I just posted an op-ed in /c/worldnews a minute ago thinking "huh this would fit better if there were a /c/world, this isn't exactly news so much as analysis" (then just now seeing this post). If we learned one thing from reddit it's not to centralize control over communities.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Gotcha, yeah, many people seem on board with a merge, but given that some people aren't and it's not particularly close to unanimous I don't think we will be doing it. Thanks for the feedback!

load more comments (2 replies)

this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2023

13 points (81.0% liked)

worldnews

4737 readers

1 users here now

Rules:

Be civil. Disagreements happen, that does not give you the right to personally insult each other.
No racism or bigotry.
Posts from sources that aren't known to be incredibly biased for either side of the spectrum are preferred. If this is not an option, you may post from whatever source you have as long as it is relevant to this community.
Post titles should be the same as the article title.
No spam, self-promotion, or trolling.

Instance-wide rules always apply.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]