I mod the [email protected] community, I’ve managed to grow the number of subscribers from 360 to 800.

I’m thinking of moving it to programming.dev. Is this a good idea? I made a post asking this and I’m looking for feedback there.

  • drspod@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    a community I have.

    Try not to think of it that way. The community is the people who subscribe, post and comment. You don’t own them, you just take out the trash. If they are happy to move then good, if not then don’t force it. And you can always just make a second community on the other instance and hand over the old instance to the people who want to stay there.

    • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      8 months ago

      If they are happy to move then good, if not then don’t force it.

      Good point. Most of the time people are ok to move, but it’s always better to ask

  • essigvater@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Can someone please explain what the issue is with lemmy.world? I signed up 2 years ago and haven’t been very active and just recently came back to lemmy in general.

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Most of the big-name communities on lemmy.world are political in some way, and they all have pretty severe varieties of moderation fuckery. Mods will make safe spaces for troll users posting streams of propaganda, make rules against calling out the propaganda, do totally bizarre things (MBFC bot) which they then blame on the admins saying that the admins are forcing them to do it, and then the admins will say that’s not true and how could they ever get that impression. It’s just a weird, noisy, and dishonest place.

      And, also, because it’s the biggest instance it has the biggest population of aggressively clueless or offensive users. The mods seem pretty overwhelmed being able to deal with it all. I’m not sure you can really blame that on the instance itself, since it’s just what happens on a big instance, but in my opinion the low quality of the conversation might be related to the fact that the mods are apparently spending a lot of their finite amount of time apparently actively trying to make things worse.

      It happens sometimes that I’ll click on a post, look at the comments and get this “WTF, is it St. Patrick’s Day and everyone’s angry and drunk and no one told me, what is this” reaction and then notice that I somehow stumbled into a big lemmy.world political community, and so the quality of the conversation is immediately going to have a negative 200 percent penalty.

      Don’t go there. It is a bad place. The PugJesus historical art communities are nice though.

    • Ludrol@szmer.infoEnglish
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      8 months ago

      No major issues, just that server performance is poor and it lags, so people are discouraged to centralize the communities in one place.

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
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    8 months ago
    1. Yes please, lemmy.world is awful (and in particular hosting there is a disservice to places like Beehaw that don’t feel like dealing with the daily noise and have defederated from them)
    2. Programming.dev seems a little clueless to me in terms of the culture. I read a lot of the userbase’s mindset as sort of “I aspire to be a rock star programmer, check me out I’m awesome” as opposed to “I am good at programming and take it seriously because I care about it.” Of course there is always variability based on the individual, and that first thing is in no short supply anywhere on the internet.
    3. I fully agree with whoever it was that said not everyone will move and that’s okay. You might shut down the old community but just be aware that bottom line, the users are going to do what they want to do.
    4. Maybe sh.itjust.works or lemmy.sdf.org or lemm.ee? Or infosec.pub? All of those seem extremely nerd-friendly without being overly self-important about it.