As some of you may know, !wholesome@reddthat.com is now more active than this community. Reddthat is a nice instance, and having the community there allows us to spread the communities across the different instances.

As it is usually easier for people to subscribe to only community, we are thinking about creating a pinned post here, pointing to !wholesome@reddthat.com, and lock the community.

If needed, the community can always be unlocked in the future.

Examples of other communities doing the same

  • gkak.laₛ@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7·
    4 days ago

    I too came here to say ~this! Having only one community takes away some of the benefits that decentralization provides; meanwhile, similar communities can just link to each other in their sidebar

    • Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zipEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      similar communities can just link to each other in their sidebar

      Linking to each other in the sidebar doesn’t really solve the issue

      • most of the people don’t read the sidebar
      • quite a few apps don’t make is easy to see the sidebar (or sometimes don’t show it at all)
      • people still want to post once, and be done with it
      • gkak.laₛ@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        4 days ago
        • Pinned comment then 😕
          • In any case, it’s something that needs to be solved with a UX feature (e.g. how Piefed does it already (?)), not by changing how we use the whole network
        • People can still post in only one community if they want to

        Having to look at a sidebar, a pinned comment, or an automated DM, is way better that having a single point of failure for our discussions which can be taken down by defederation, censorship, server data loss, etc; people who don’t care (or don’t know) about those, can just subscribe to only one of the communities and… just see fewer posts 🤔

        If we just host all the communities on one instance, we’ll just be making a new Reddit

        • LadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
          6·
          4 days ago

          Thanks for your perspective! I agree we don’t want to be reddit. I moderate a few comms and IME pinned comments get totally missed. I’ve had issues receiving DMs a few times so I wouldn’t feel comfortable doing it by DM. The idea of decentralisation is spreading it over the fediverse, not just on one instance. Reddthat isn’t the primary instance so I think we’d be ok. I do totally see your concerns about censorship etc.

        • Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zipEnglish
          6·
          4 days ago

          If we just host all the communities on one instance, we’ll just be making a new Reddit

          This is kind of what is happening with Lemmy.world: https://piefed.zip/communities?search=&home_select=any&subscribe_select=any&topic_id=0&feed_id=0&language_id=0&instance=&sort_by=active_weekly+desc

          You can see that the vast majority of the communities are hosted on LW.

          Moving the active community to another instance (Reddthat) is a way to ensure the platform is more reliant. And should Reddthat go down, we could just reopen this one and discuss here where to go next.

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          PieFed has a number of options that support this, including:

          1. showing the side-bar text below each and every single post
          2. combining together all comments across all cross-posts regardless of which communities are involved or which instances those are on
          3. combining together multiple communities into one “Topic” (provided by instance admin) or “Feed” (these are user-customizable and even shareable!)

          The only down-side is that I think atm none of these are supported by its brand-new API, so apps like Voyager cannot take advantage of them yet, and are limited to the same experience that you have with just basic Lemmy, but even that is only a temporary issue as PieFed zooms ahead with adding new features practically weekly.

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