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Is it a good idea to post to abandoned communities about their active counterparts? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm mostly thinking about LW communities where nobody posts but which have active counterparts on other instances

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My opinion is yes. That existing subscriber base goes a long way towards jumpstarting an active community

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Thanks, good to see you here!

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

I think it is a good idea. We pretty much did just that when consolidating c/SpaceX from [email protected] and [email protected] to [email protected]. I just now noticed the dormant [email protected]. Should that be consolidated as well?

There are also a plethora of data hoarder communities scattered around Lemmy: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected].

Another candidate for consolidation? A bit of a tricky case, as the current largest community is not on the most politically centrist/neutral instance, and lemmy.dbzer0 which (in my opinion) would be a more closely aligned instance doesn't have a data hoarders community.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yes! I think it's a good idea.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I like this because people showing up to those communities might think that topic doesn't have activity on Lemmy, when it actually does. Assuming the moderators are still active, the abandoned community can stay open to new posts (in case there are issues with the active counterpart).

I personally subscribe to both, so that I can get all the posts, but I post to the community I consider the 'main' community

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for your comment!

I did it yesterday in [email protected] to show people that [email protected] is there, let's see how it goes.

I sometimes think that unmoderated communities should be closed, and just be left and locked with a pointer to the active one. In case an issue arises with the active one, they can still be unlocked and used as back up.