LemDro.id is the instance for all things Android within the threadiverse (Lemmy, Mbin, PieFed and now even NodeBB) and so it’s only right that F-Droid finds itself a host on Lemdroid.
The amazing team over at Lemdroid were gracious enough to host the F-Droid community. This opens F-Droid discussions to users whose home instance block ML and more users having easier access to content is never a bad thing.
So if you’d like to subscribe to a community dedicated to open source apps via a Google Play Store alternative, please check out !fdroid@lemdro.id
You could maybe even go a step further and post F-Droid content directly on !android@lemdro.id
It’s not that busy anyway, and already has quite a few subscribers
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If it’s relevant, it’ll end up in android too.
As we know, due to the way Lemmy shows crossposts, the larger community will usually get most of the comments and reactions, while the others won’t get much.
Recent example
I already suggested the Lemdro.id admins to lock a few of their communities, even !askandroid@lemdro.id could just redirect to !android@lemdro.id for now, it’s not like any of them are that active besides the main one: https://l.lemdro.id/communities
There’s a clear division. You’re trying to micromanage and for what. Let communities exist. People that want to go to the biggest community can. There’s been plenty of occasions where I’ve seen more discussions in smaller communities.
To make the platform grow, so that at some point very popular topics like Android, Football or Lego do not rely on a single person for activity.
The main criticism potential new joiners have towards Lemmy is that it’s confusing, because communities exist every twice (!android@lemdro.id vs !android@lemmy.world ) , causing https://lawsofux.com/choice-overload/
Letting communities exist doesn’t work when the main competitor is Reddit that has been established for 15 years. Small communities start, the main poster shouts into the void for a while, then stops posting and leaves the platform. That’s the whole motivation behind !fedigrow@lemmy.zip
When Reddit started, there were no subreddits. There was a single feed, and everything was there. Then, when there was enough activity, general subreddits started.
You call it micromanaging, but there needs to be some consolidation at some point for the platform to be sustainable.
They can’t, in this case, because !android@lemdro.id rules prevents support questions to be asked.
I meant that people can go to another instance. Lemdroid is fine as is. And for the record, you’re not attempting to consolidate, you’re attempting to artificially fluff.
I’m surprised, as I know you’re against centralization of large instances, but this would mean to basically tell people to go to Lemmy.world to have a general Android community.
Not sure what you mean. We both post on !football@sopuli.xyz. Is using a general football community “artificially fluffing”, compared to using !premierleague@instance, !seriea@instance, !bundesliga@instance ?
My stance is that using a general football community is good based on the amount of regular posters. I think it should be the same for Android.
If people don’t like the way Lemdroid is run, LW is there or any other instance is there and available.
I don’t post in football to create content or make it look busy, I post there because I love football.
Then LW will keep being the centralized instance with the vast majority of communities.
That doesn’t answer the question: what is an adequate level of detail for an Android community?
People probably love Android too, but don’t want to post to a community where there are 7 post in a month, and with 87 monthly active users compared to !android@lemmy.world which has 1590 MAU (!android@lemdro.id has 3k, but we already know questions aren’t allowed there)
Agreed, and kinda confused why askandroid would need locking because of a FDroid community 🤔
The thing that gets me is I came across forums for Android just before Digg shit the bed, and migrated to /r/Android where things were all cozy with ~1K-25K members.
But as always the Help Vampires took hold, and it wasn’t until the mods realised that peeps submitting screenshots of their
battery stats / problems / or some new feature that is limited to an OEMor whatever, they had to then have a clear set of rules and sister communities such as /r/AndroidQuestions / AndroidApps.Even r/acj (RIP 😖).
I worry even if the numbers are small now, if we consolidate things into a bucket we’re likely to end up in the same situation again having to redirect the noise so to speak and going round in circles reopening it 🤷♀️
Yeah, I don’t agree with locking either. LemDro.id is fine as it is.
With 7 posts last month, the Help Vampires are probably not in !askandroid@lemdro.id either:
https://lemmy.world/c/android has a few of them, but on average it’s one post per day.
But then we would just reopen it? It would be a one-time action, not a circle?
Booooo, I don’t see no upvotes 😆
Engagement is key ;)
Any other comment on what was said?
Yeah, like I said via Beeper/Matrix
🇬🇧 LadZ:
Yeah I totally get ya, and I’m just chiming in with what I’ve seen before and the best people to ask are the subscribers themselves.
Not me a lazy ass mod that doesn’t do anything because to be honest this Fediverse shit is cool compared to weddit or even Colesy and the admins
Just my 2¢
Yoinking a community is never fun. I’ve seen that before.
Should I open a thread on !askandroid@lemdro.id to see what subscribers there think?