Probably a very polarizing question.

On the one hand, having most of the users and communities on LW causes technical issues (see this post), and also gives the LW staff too much power over Lemmy as a whole.

On the other hand, with 18k MAU on LW out of 47k (https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/), every community listed there has a much higher chance of visibility compared to an alternative hosted on another instance

  • @Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
    3•2 months ago

    A post a day in a community is a bot, more often than not, and trying to create discussion on bot posts often just falls on deaf ears.

    In this case, I’m pretty sure it’s not, it’s a mix between @The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world, @garfaagel@sh.itjust.works, myself and a few others.

    We had a nice discussion a few weeks ago about metal bands (https://dormi.zone/post/1721444)

    organically support active communities wherever they’re found.

    Makes sense

    so you don’t see so many duplicate posts in your feed and all those individual discussions are instead in one place.

    I guess at some points moderators of communities around a same topic will have to agree on where to host the community. The split between !android@lemmy.world and !android@lemdro.id still doesn’t make sense to me today.