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  • Also part of the 10+ year club (long time lurker). You’re right about that “familiar sense”, but for myself it comes with a forgotten sense of optimism.

    Reddit’s been on the decline for years before the Vitoria incident or The Great Purge… but as long as I had my niche communities, baconreader, and old.reddit.com - I could “get by”… as Reddit became more and more aggressive in selling “me as the product”.

    The federated and open source nature of Lemmy will solve the issue of “corporate presence”, but it will require us to “roll up our sleeves” - which I find refreshing.





  • Thanks for sharing your perspective. Your absolutely right “opening the floodgates” would be an administrative nightmare, plus it might put you (as the admin) at some sort of legal risk.

    However, maybe there’s a middle-ground. Let’s assume, for arguments sake, option 2 existed (some simple rules - you defined - which would cleaninly archive, purge, cull inactive channels).

    Then foster/encourage people to submit small/nitch channels. Of course, it would need some sort of approval process. It could start out as a simple “blocked word list” and there after would need a manual approval. This manual process could be done by people who you believe are like-minded and “understand” what Beehaw’s purpose is.

    Of course, this vetted group will not always choose exactly as you would. However, community members would/could report content, which would draw attention from either you or the vetted group, which could result in the channel being revoked and purged.

    If there’s one thing I’ve witnessed at Reddit, it’s the power of passionate people / Mods. They’re not afraid to “roll up their sleeves” and get dirty, if they’re given the chance.


  • Regarding your comment about “small communities” not really developing: Couldn’t we just have a simple technical solution? Communities that aren’t “active” just get pruned, culled or just removed from the search.

    This would allow the opportunity for some of those “small communities” to thrive (while others die out).

    I’m like the parent poster. I came from Reddit and joined /r/GameDeals and /r/PatientGamers but I specifically did not joins /r/Games. Why? Because for me there was too much noise and content I wasn’t interest in /r/Games, but GameDeals + PatientGamers combined offered me more quality with less noise.

    I’m kind of frustrated with Lemmy that I need to filter through all the Gaming communities (and noise) just to sort-of keep tabs on what’s happening in the community.