I mean have they seen how good Ice Cubes and Mlem look? How can they choose the default Twitter and Reddit apps over those masterpieces.

  • I Cast FistEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    To add to Blaze’s point: as lemmy’s still small, there’s not much point to super specialized communities when the more general ones are “slow” enough that pretty much any post you make can remain “newest” for 2 days straight.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      I understand this perspective, and I occasionally flirt with it myself, but mostly I disagree.

      My main view is that content should go in a community that will be interested in it. There’s a balance to be struck here to avoid getting hyper specific (for example, I’ve stopped using [email protected] in favour of just putting train stuff in [email protected]), but I also think content that is fundamentally not about the topic of one community shouldn’t go in that community. I wouldn’t post Brisbane-specific local council politics in [email protected], for example.

      My view is that subscribing to a community costs nothing. Creating a community costs nothing. Even moderating a community doesn’t have any very much cost for the moderator on a per-community (as opposed to per-post or per-comment) basis. There’s no actual harm caused by having 10 communities with 1 post per day, compared to one community with 10 posts per day. Instead, doing the former simply allows people to more easily filter for the content that they are interested in and avoid that which they are not.

      I’ve given a more detailed reply to Blaze about the specific discussion at hand here, but since you brought up the general principle, I thought I’d reply to you with my general principle.

      • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
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        59 minutes ago

        My view is that subscribing to a community costs nothing.

        It does, to an extend. People don’t want to subscribe to dozens of different communities to get their content. As I said in the other comment, there’s a balance to be found, and usually more generic communities benefit from not having to be promoted in a lot of places to get known, people just see them from All or a post in [email protected] and subscribe because they see it as active and generic enough.