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Do you think Lemmy is hurt by having too many dead/low-PPM communities? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Title is a bit of a loaded question but I tried to fit it into one sentence.

Do you think Lemmy's search and use functions are hurt by all the communities that were made and abandoned during the 2023 Redditfugee influx? As in, do you think that Lemmy would be better off if some of these communities were consolidated into larger general pages until it gets a big enough user base to warrant individual communities for specific TV shows, for example.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Userbase is sufficient for generic topics, not specific ones (there are exceptions)

[email protected] is quite active, [email protected] not so much

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But people insist on creating incredibly specific niche communities, I'm certain because they want to establish their own fiefdoms when this "blows up".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I agree. I think a lot of people heard that Lemmy was "just like reddit" back when SHTF on the other site and rushed over here to claim their stake instead of letting the community develop those pages organically. How many boards are on here that were made to be just 1:1 clones of popular subreddits? How many users created repost bots and never actually bothered to fill their communities with original content?