I mod the !iiiiiiitttttttttttt@lemmy.world community, I’ve managed to grow the number of subscribers from 360 to 800.

I’m thinking of moving it to programming.dev. Is this a good idea? I made a post asking this and I’m looking for feedback there.

  • essigvater@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 hours ago

    Can someone please explain what the issue is with lemmy.world? I signed up 2 years ago and haven’t been very active and just recently came back to lemmy in general.

    • Ludrol@szmer.infoEnglish
      5·
      3 hours ago

      No major issues, just that server performance is poor and it lags, so people are discouraged to centralize the communities in one place.

  • Clodsire@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    9 hours ago

    I think its fine but you shouldnt rush it or else you will make the community angry

  • drspod@lemmy.mlEnglish
    14·
    13 hours ago

    a community I have.

    Try not to think of it that way. The community is the people who subscribe, post and comment. You don’t own them, you just take out the trash. If they are happy to move then good, if not then don’t force it. And you can always just make a second community on the other instance and hand over the old instance to the people who want to stay there.

    • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
      7·
      9 hours ago

      you just take out the trash

      I don’t know what it is, maybe it’s some form of ikea effect, where people think that the act of filling a form, adding an icon and a description makes them immediately attached to something that (initially) amounts to a record field in a database.

      I’ve lost count of how many people I asked “Hey, I saw you are the mod of <mostly inactive community on large instance>, I am running <slightly active/mostly inactive community on topic-specific instance>. How about we join forces?” And almost invariably they act like I am asking them to give me their firstborn.

      • irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        1·
        24 minutes ago

        Some of those mods aren’t active for spans of several months, but are opposed to giving up any control on their communitiies.

      • drspod@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        5 hours ago

        And almost invariably they act like I am asking them to give me their firstborn.

        You can’t infer that they are being possessive, when an equally possible explanation for that reaction is that they are offended on behalf of their community members, who would not want a unilateral consolidation of their community into another community that they feel no connection to.

        Just because you mod a community doesn’t mean you get to make the decision about where people gather for that community. When instances have different moderation rules and different vibes, you must have a consenting userbase in order to make decisions like that.

        • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
          3·
          4 hours ago

          that they are offended on behalf of their community members

          I’m talking about cases where there aren’t any community members to speak of.

    • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      8·
      12 hours ago

      If they are happy to move then good, if not then don’t force it.

      Good point. Most of the time people are ok to move, but it’s always better to ask

  • asudox@lemmy.asudox.devEnglish
    13·
    14 hours ago

    Sure. Anything to help with the decentralization is good.

    Though you probably won’t be able to get every single subscriber to move to the new community.

  • andioop@programming.devEnglish
    8·
    14 hours ago

    I’d definitely like that as a programming.dev user. I like to see topic-specific instances used for that topic, and to have lots of communities about that topic.

  • PhilipTheBucketAEnglish
    94·
    13 hours ago
    1. Yes please, lemmy.world is awful (and in particular hosting there is a disservice to places like Beehaw that don’t feel like dealing with the daily noise and have defederated from them)
    2. Programming.dev seems a little clueless to me in terms of the culture. I read a lot of the userbase’s mindset as sort of “I aspire to be a rock star programmer, check me out I’m awesome” as opposed to “I am good at programming and take it seriously because I care about it.” Of course there is always variability based on the individual, and that first thing is in no short supply anywhere on the internet.
    3. I fully agree with whoever it was that said not everyone will move and that’s okay. You might shut down the old community but just be aware that bottom line, the users are going to do what they want to do.
    4. Maybe sh.itjust.works or lemmy.sdf.org or lemm.ee? Or infosec.pub? All of those seem extremely nerd-friendly without being overly self-important about it.