Do you think Lemmy is hurt by having too many dead/low-PPM communities? - eviltoast

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.

    • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de
      6·
      11 months ago

      The main issue is that different people prefer different approaches based on instances

      All of them are valid, but those different views prevent merging the communities

    • livus@kbin.social
      2·
      11 months ago

      Lemmy.world has most of those because it’s the biggest instance. If size is what you want, that’s probably where you should look.

      If your instance is kbin not mbin, when you search communities it probably doesn’t give you the real subscriber numbers, only number who subscribed from your instance. You should look at number of posts to get a better idea.

      Mbin fixed this I think.