At some point we need to acknowledge that there are only so many active communities we can sustain, and that usually the most active becomes the default one.

!science_memes@mander.xyz is definitely the most active community compared to !sciencememes@lemmy.world

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do we? I don’t think we need to. People are free subscribe to either, both, or none. And adding a feature where a community can follow another solves pretty much all issues one could have with fracturing.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Evidence shows that all over the platform there's one community which becomes the main one for a given topic

People are free subscribe to either, both, or none.

Subscribers can, but posters are not going to crosspost their content to all the communities available on a topic

And adding a feature where a community can follow another solves pretty much all issues one could have with fracturing.

That's not even on the roadmap of Lemmy, Piefed or Mbin, is it?

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Proposal 3 according to another comment on this thread.