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[META] This community shouldn't exist. (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Somehow the body disappeared when I posted this so I am going to copy my comment that inspired the post:

This community doesn't fit Lemmy. Why are we segregating tweets? I'll bet the mods here don't even know why /r/whitepeopletwitter existed in the first place because if they did, they'd know we don't "need" it here. It's arguably worse if they don't know because they're separating tweets by race for no fucking reason

Seriously just delete this community and use microblogmemes or whatever. Can't believe this reddit shit got copied over here.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Okay, I think the practical reasons you gave are sound. Pre-dividing a userbase into more chunks than necessary makes the site seem smaller than it is. And trying to "force" the same subs that were on Reddit into Lemmy prevents uniquely-Lemmy stuff from forming.

And the "need" for white people twitter is basically "if we give everyone but white people a twitter space they'll get mad and say it's racist" lmao. I 100% agree that it doesn't talk about "white issues" anywhere near the same degree as other communities talk about what they face.

With that said, I'm still not seeing a reason why the sub shouldn't exist. I might eventually agree that it's not necessary, it's redundant, or it's not funny... But that just means micro blog memes needs to get better posts and drive interest. Both are silly little communities with silly little posts, and each can right for more users.