I enjoyed my time being here and helping to grow this community. My plan was to keep things such as book of the month and show discussions going indefinitely. It’s sad to say goodbye as I would love to continue to try my best at facilitating discussion and help this community become a great resource for science fiction fans everywhere. Unfortunately, I don’t have a choice as lemmy.world admins have made the rather baffling decision to ban my account despite no rules being broken. Unless I hear back from Ruud on the matter and the situation is rectified there is no way for me to continue to enjoy discussing science fiction with all of you here. I’m unsure if I will attempt to restart this community on another instance.
Keep on loving science fiction. You guys are great. 🚀
I mean users are the ones that are flocking to lemmy.world to start new communities instead doing that on other instances.
Yeah, I find that particularly worrying. For all its decentralisation, there’s a lot of eggs in the LemmyWorld basket.
I don’t generally post on lemmy.world if alternative community exists somewhere else. Cross-posting is a good tool for spreading out but it is not really getting used a lot due to mobile clients not handing them and just showing multiple posts in a row (which annoys people).
It’s a bit of a discoverability problem I think, much easier to find content on your own instance. (So new communities are opened on instances with lots of people)
Definitely. Lemmy needs to figure out a way to search more globally (e.g. Mastodon relies on tags for discoverability), but there are external tools like https://lemmyverse.net/communities at the moment. I think just as important is people understanding that you can still grow on smaller instances if you produde interesting content. Just start is a bit slower.
https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs can help with this, and be run by the instance admin rather than the users
Having to use an external tool gets in the way of a lot of people just through friction unfortunately. Lots of the people here are quite techy I think which helps though.
I need to take another look through there though, I keep running out of content.
I usually look in all or ine new communities community
All is only really useful in the larger instances because they have the communities federated, but yeh, that does help, especially if you are sorting by new or a short top.
https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs can help with discoverability