Have you tried reaching out to them to talk to them about Lemmy?

I just had an issue that might be interesting in your case. You can read it up on !newcommunities@lemmy.world, but long story short, the mod of a community wasn’t happy with the way I wanted to bring some meta discussion into the community.

The main difference in this kind of situation between Lemmy and Reddit is that

• the modlog (https://lemm.ee/modlog/408863) is public, allowing everyone to see what the mod did
• it’s very easy to open another community, explain what went wrong with the other one, and keep things going.

I’ll skip this one, but thanks for this initiative!

Just a small question, where is the link to the community?

It’s okay. I usually use https://lemmyverse.net/communities as a complement if I want to research communities

But wouldn’t it be great if the knitting community (for example) on beehaw.org, lemmy.ml, lemmy.world and feddit.de would be merged for me into one entity for a better browsing experience?

Why wouldn’t they merge on one instance? Seems easier, and can be done today compared to having to ask the developers to implement a complex feature.

I’m curious too, depending on the instance, users can general escalate to admins, and then leave the instance if necessary.

Yes, that’s what I meant by security risk, that’s like a DoS feature.

Lemmy Community Feeder? https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs

And on Lemmy some instances duplicate everything. For example beehaw

Are they not allowed to?

Beehaw exists for people who wanted a heavily-moderated space, and they seem to be doing well activity-wise. Do you want to force them with the rest of the instances?

There might need to be a revamp of the logo to make it a bit more appealing.

What I could definitely see happening would be instance-based merch, especially if the community feeling is strong.

Very interesting, thank you for this

This was only possible because the scale of users on a community is very low (<5000). Bigger communities have inertia effect in play.

40k of us literally left Reddit to come here due to malevolent actions from Reddit.

Migration is different from being able to view all posts of same topic community in a meta form.

Do all people interested in gaming see the discussions happening at hexbear and beehaw on those topics? The meta form seems to deny that there is a reasons why different communities exist on the same topic.

I always like there are basically two types of topics (because after all, communities are focused on a topic)

• either you have enough of a userbase to have your own flavour on the topic, for instance all the gaming communities that exist on different instances, which all co-exist next to each other, and it wouldn’t really make sense to merge them all
• or you don’t have enough people, and in this case you should just agree on one instance where to host the community and be done with it

I know there is the political aspect to take into account, but for me that comes back to the first point: if enough people of the same political side want to talk about something between them, that’s good. If not, they might have to put that aside and go for the second option.

All that said, I think a lot of communities probably should be looking at negotiating a merge.

Strong agree

Don’t want to be ostracized because your user is registered on the wrong politic instance ? Join biggest instance instead.

There are plenty of politically neutral instance. Most of them are, actually, the only ones that come to mind as politically oriented are hexbear, lemmygrad and to an extend, lemmy.ml.

That leaves lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, all the feddit.country, discuss.tchncs.de, sopuli.xyz, reddthat.com, lemmy.zip as neutral alternatives

There are several examples of communities moving from instance to another, or refusing a mod powertrip.

!unixporn@lemmy.world was an attempt from the mods subreddit to get the community back, but most of the people rejected that and stayed on !unixporn@lemmy.ml.

Small scale example, but I like the show “the Office”. !dundermifflin@lemmy.ml is the historical community, but as some people are not fans of lemmy.ml, we moved to !dundermifflin@lemm.ee, which is now the most active community on this topic.

I guess that shows that community takeover is possible, and does not need additional tools, just some time and dedication.

Also, keep in mind that except if there is a real reason (admin/mods powertripping, problematic instance direction), there is no incentive for users to move to another community. But the important thing is that the possibility is very much there, and helps keeping everyone in check.

Meet the new boss, same as old boss.

Who’s Lemmy’s spez?

• The Lemmy devs operate lemmy.ml, but it’s far from being the most active one (it’s currently the 5th): https://lemmyverse.net/?order=active_day
• Large instances admins? The most active communities are spread across dbzer0, lemmy.world, programming.dev, lemm.ee, feddit.de, etc.: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active

The main difference of Lemmy compared to Reddit is the ability that communities have to walk away, as I explained in another comment: https://discuss.online/comment/5393546

I already posted to anotherserver/c/books and no one ever saw it.

Did you promote that community on !newcommunities@lemmy.world and other promotion communities? Did you actively post on your new community, to attract users to your new one?

I’m going to take two examples I personally had

• I’m not a fan of having all discussions on LW, so even if !movies@lemmy.world was the most active one, we decided with a few others to start animating !moviesandtv@lemm.ee. It is now the most active community on that topic.
• I like the show “the Office”. !dundermifflin@lemmy.ml is the historical community, but as some people are not fans of lemmy.ml, we moved to !dundermifflin@lemm.ee, which is now the most active community on this topic.

I guess that shows that community takeover is possible, and does not need additional tools, just some time and dedication.

Doesn’t !books@lemmy.ml and !books@lemmy.world direct you to yourinstance.org/c/books@lemmy.ml and yourinstance.org/c/books@lemmy.world respectively?

This is the power of the Daemon

When you go to /c/books on your server, you don’t see an agglomeration of all /c/books on all servers of the fediverse. You only see that server’s /c/books, if it even has one.

What prevents from visiting /c/books@anotherserver?

Genuinely asking, because this is one of the core concepts of Lemmy and federation