Problem - if you want to recreate a community that has fragmented after reddit exodus, which instance do you choose so that everyone who were spilled all over internet finds a way back together?
Can this be instantly achieved? Or is it inevitable that this process of reaggregation into single community will continue for a long time (months or even years)? Let's discuss!
I personally am not a mod of any subreddit. I just had this question arise in my brain.
I think that time will tell which one ends up winning the race.
What I usually do is checking for activity, in terms of recent posts, comments, and whatnot. If both show similar activity levels, I'll just subscribe to both and keep watching for developments.
I could easily imagine someone not particulary tech savy getting lost in the internet wilderness and finding their old lost community like a year or more in the future only to realize that all their old buddies have found themselves back together for months already.
I hope we get better community discovery tools that can mitigate this.
Now I'm wondering if I should try and recreate r/CuratedTumblr here, cause they all just kinda went to either tumblr or discord I think
Please do! I miss looking at Tumblr posts.
... Not enough to actually go on Tumblr, though.
I don't know how to run an instance but I did find a curated tumblr community, but I don't think it's the same people: https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected] Also don't you have to pay money to host a server/instance?
Huh, it wasn't coming up in a search for me. I had to try searching for it like three times and the first time I clicked your link I got a server error. Well, I guess the Lemmy servers are a bit screwy right now. Thanks for the link!
I assume that creating a whole server/instance takes some kind of resources and cost, but I think just opening a community is free? I haven't tried it yet though.
You're welcome! It took me a bit to get that link working too.
I had to search for https://sh.itjust.works/c/curatedtumblr in my instance to get it to pull up to add
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1113
This should resolve this.
@Hedup Anyone who opens a #Lemmy community (or #kbin)) should check in advance whether there is already one on the same topic. Most of the existing ones can be found here via this search function: browse.feddit.de/
If there is already a community, you can see or ask the moderators how it is organised (e.g. rules) and if it suits you, perhaps help out as an additional moderator. But maybe the orientation is different and then more than one community would make sense.
That's a good rule. If people follow it.