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
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.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !pelletgrills
I wish I could find more Healthcare workers. My computer skills make me a bit of an odd duck in hcw spaces, but the fact that there's none on this end doesn't help the isolation either.
We're actually in contact with the r/Medicine moderation team over in !medicine. We never ended up formally announcing a partnership / official status because everyone got busy, but it's something I want to go back to at some point. There are a lot of amazing medicine/healthcare communities on Reddit that could benefit from an alternative here
That seems to be mostly news Articles and interested laypeople. I need a community where I can bitch about patients throwing piss and punches and me and console others with similar stories.
I don't think there are enough medical professionals making that content yet, so in the meantime I've been trying to share news/updates relevant to medical professionals. I'm happy to make any changes to the community to help meet those needs.
It seems to be a chicken-egg situation like other niche communities. While it's mostly laypeople right now, it might just need a few medical professionals to start making text posts there, and then others can find the community over time.
I'll see about pinning a message next time I'm on Desktop, to redirect anyone that is looking there. The old community wasn't getting that many new posts already
Update: Mander are working on their federation issues (https://mander.xyz/post/14144123), so I would wait until they are done to create a community there
As far as I'm aware the big issue with l.w is centralisation. So it makes sense to suggest people start new communities on other instances but if there is one already there, we might as well make use of it.
In the first case, having the community on sopuli.xyz rather than lemmy.world is a step towards decentralization.
There is a certain level of consolidation to be had to that community are active enough to survive. Otherwise you have plenty of inactive communities. Ideal from a decentralization perspective, but lacking as discussion spaces.
I've gone on before on how the idea of "consolidating" can be a problem because it leads to centralization. We already have a problem with instances like lemmy.world being too centralizing and taking people off a community and tossing them into another one with a different culture, or even worse into one where they are defederated from their instance, is not going to solve the issue.
And I want to emphasize the point about culture. All those HP communities "might" be the same but they have every right to be different, and to conduct themselves differently, in various ways. !harrypotter has one focus but !harrypotter could have different focus or even be able to discuss subjects that literature.cafe can't because of jurisdiction. We could even have !harrypotter (for example) and certainly that can't be clearly merged with either of the above.
So, IMO, any "solution" for the idea of consolidation has to allow instances and communities to exist as they are, and does not have to norm that content that can be posted to one community has to be valid for all communities. Else, we're returning to the Reddit and the Facebook that we left.
We indeed have a problem with LW centralization (that's the topic of another post in this community), but we also have a problem of abandoned communities.
There is no issue if all of those three Harry Potter communities you mentioned were active, but that's clearly not the case.
Consolidating communities in one community gets more activity, which Lemmy needs especially on niche topics.
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