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Leaving Lemmy World (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by IzzyData@lemmy.ml to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world
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I enjoyed my time being here and helping to grow this community. My plan was to keep things such as book of the month and show discussions going indefinitely. It's sad to say goodbye as I would love to continue to try my best at facilitating discussion and help this community become a great resource for science fiction fans everywhere. Unfortunately, I don't have a choice as lemmy.world admins have made the rather baffling decision to ban my account despite no rules being broken. Unless I hear back from Ruud on the matter and the situation is rectified there is no way for me to continue to enjoy discussing science fiction with all of you here. I'm unsure if I will attempt to restart this community on another instance.

Keep on loving science fiction. You guys are great. πŸš€

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[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean users are the ones that are flocking to lemmy.world to start new communities instead doing that on other instances.

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I find that particularly worrying. For all its decentralisation, there's a lot of eggs in the LemmyWorld basket.

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

I don't generally post on lemmy.world if alternative community exists somewhere else. Cross-posting is a good tool for spreading out but it is not really getting used a lot due to mobile clients not handing them and just showing multiple posts in a row (which annoys people).

[–] Nighed@sffa.community 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a bit of a discoverability problem I think, much easier to find content on your own instance. (So new communities are opened on instances with lots of people)

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Definitely. Lemmy needs to figure out a way to search more globally (e.g. Mastodon relies on tags for discoverability), but there are external tools like https://lemmyverse.net/communities at the moment. I think just as important is people understanding that you can still grow on smaller instances if you produde interesting content. Just start is a bit slower.

[–] Nighed@sffa.community 4 points 1 year ago

Having to use an external tool gets in the way of a lot of people just through friction unfortunately. Lots of the people here are quite techy I think which helps though.

I need to take another look through there though, I keep running out of content.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs can help with this, and be run by the instance admin rather than the users

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I usually look in all or ine new communities community

[–] Nighed@sffa.community 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All is only really useful in the larger instances because they have the communities federated, but yeh, that does help, especially if you are sorting by new or a short top.