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
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)
So it’s Lemdroid’s responsibility to pander?
Says who? If people want to post to LW or anywhere else, they will. I don’t post to !selfhosted@lemmy.world because I don’t like the moderation policy, none of the other self hosted communities across Lemmy are as active. Despite that, I still don’t post. Because the community isn’t a good fit for me.
I asked @Astrealix@lemmy.world to move @gunners@lemmy.world to another instance and he didn’t wanna. Despite my strong feelings about decentralisation, I stuck there because community is more important.
I like the admin team and the community of Lemdroid. Whether they’re tiny or there’s more popular elsewhere. I’m not chasing numbers of trying to act like ActivityPub Jesus, first and foremost is cultivating my good time without letting my ego get in the way.
They were created as an alternative to LW (https://lemmy.world/post/2318814 - ironically, I saw one of your alts then banned, seems like the LW mods didn’t appreciate your posts), so in a sense, yes? But I’ll probably just open a post on !askandroid@lemdro.id to see what people over there think.
All comments you see mentioning “every time I look for a community on Lemmy to ask a question, it’s a ghost town”.
You care about defederation and moderation policies. Most users just go for the community with the higher number of subs / MAU. This is the main reason why !privacy@lemmy.ml and !linux@lemmy.ml are still the largest communities by far while !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com and !linux@programming.dev exist.
In a way, you show it yourself with the second. You have to go to !gunners@lemmy.world because it’s the only active community. If there was a similarly active gunners community elsewhere, wouldn’t you post and comment there instead?
If we want decentralization, the non-LW/ml communities have to be better, otherwise network effect just brings people there naturally.
If you prefer not to interfere with that, that’s okay, but I’m not sure why criticizing people who try to (and it’s not only me, you see other people like @threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works doing a great job consolidating inactive communities: https://lemmy.zip/post/40774008) helps with decentralization.
But we’re both part of that community. Me suggesting something to you isn’t something that happens in a vacuum, it’s two regular poster of the community/instance who discuss where posts are made.
The first prerequisite to have a good time is to have people to interact with. This has been know for a while: https://lemmy.zip/post/14347368