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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I think i've changed my mind. I'd rather keep this community alive.

I don't mind if the active posters move to [email protected], but i would like to try to sustain a real, organic community here.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I wonder how they would compare if you filtered out posts by Blaze, Lee Duna, and cm0002.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You should also mention this in [email protected]

There's a post there mentioning that their privacy community (among others) doesn't have a moderator right now, so they might be interested in consolidation.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

~~Should I lock this community, now? I don't know, i'm unsure about this.~~

[-] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago

It seems like @[email protected] still likes to posts here.

SabreW4k3, would you be okay to switch to [email protected] ?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Why are you trying to centralise? This place is fine, ml is fine and programming.dev is fine.

[-] [email protected] -4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If you are okay with .ml being the main privacy community, then the attempt to get a non-ml active privacy community probably doesn't make sense for you.

If you want a smaller community than the programming.dev and .ml ones, there is [email protected]

Edit: also, where is the decentralized community for [email protected] ?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

If you want [email protected] to be a success, make it a success organically. Trying to force people there isn't doing it.

I'm genuinely baffled by the relevance of [email protected]

[-] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You say you are pro-decentralization, which is why you prefer to have multiple similar communities on the same topic.

But at the same time, you still post to [email protected], which is on the largest Lemmy instance by far. So you still acknowledge that you prefer to post on active communities rather than "shout into the void"

Nothing about [email protected] has been organic, I am aware as I was the main poster here for a while to make it active in the first place

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/search?q=+&type=Posts&listingType=All&communityId=1111729&creatorId=7389843&page=1&sort=TopAll

6 pages of my posts here

Dbzer0 was selected as the main non-ml community 7 months ago in this thread: https://lazysoci.al/post/21253059?

Again, nothing organic.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

This is a bit sad.

You say you are pro-decentralization, which is why you prefer to have multiple similar communities on the same topic.

But at the same time, you still post to [email protected], which is on the largest Lemmy instance by far. So you still acknowledge that you prefer to post on active communities rather than "shout into the void"

People matter to me more than any objective of sense of accomplishment. Fact is, I spoke to @[email protected] multiple times about moving and he's not interested. An Arsenal community wouldn't be the same without him and so I'm happy to stay posting where he is.

Nothing about [email protected] has been organic, I am aware as I was the main poster here for a while to make it active in the first place

The fact you're posting things that have been posted here over to pro.dev says otherwise.

Dbzer0 was selected as the main non-ml community 7 months ago in this thread: https://lazysoci.al/post/21253059?

And it thrived. Pat yourself on the back.

When you asked about moving a week or whatever ago, I said I like posting here, so why are you trying to harass me into following you elsewhere? And what happens in seven months when you change your mind? I'm supposed to move again? Just let me enjoy Lemmy. You can unfollow this community and you won't know it's there.

[-] [email protected] -3 points 2 days ago

People matter to me more than any objective of sense of accomplishment. Fact is, I spoke to @[email protected] multiple times about moving and he’s not interested. An Arsenal community wouldn’t be the same without him and so I’m happy to stay posting where he is.

Privacy communities wouldn't be the same without active posters like Lee Duna who has been posting a lot on that topic on [email protected] . Joining communities where there are active posters relieves me of the pressure to keep the community active.

The fact you’re posting things that have been posted here over to pro.dev says otherwise.

Let me rephrase: the dbzer0 community got active enough because a few active posters decided to make it active on the linked thread. That people started posting there afterwards doesn't contradict that its creation was completely artificial.

When you asked about moving a week or whatever ago, I said I like posting here, so why are you trying to harass me into following you elsewhere? And what happens in seven months when you change your mind? I’m supposed to move again? Just let me enjoy Lemmy. You can unfollow this community and you won’t know it’s there.

It doesn't work like that, and you know it. There are only so many active posters on a specific topic, so having everyone contributing to the same community helps fostering better discussions rather than everyone posting on a different community. The discussions that will happen in the comments in the dbzer0 won't be visible for people who follow the programming.dev community.

Let's also not forget that on top of [email protected], there is also [email protected] that has a few regular posters, which makes the whole fragmentation even worse.

If I were to create a community on your home instance, [email protected], would you start posting there too?

Also, calling this harassment seems a bit much.

This is a bit sad.

To be honest, I would care less if everyone was using Piefed, that would allow everyone to see all the comments from all the crossposts in one view, but unfortunately the vast majority of people are still using Lemmy, where discussions are fragmented between all the communities.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Lee Duna

Who?

Let me rephrase: the dbzer0 community got active enough because a few active posters decided to make it active on the linked thread. That people started posting there afterwards doesn't contradict that its creation was completely artificial.

Okay

It doesn't work like that, and you know it.

It works exactly like that. I'm not the king of Lemmy. People post where they wanna. When you wanted to move from ml because of the admin issues, I supported that. When you wanted to genuinely decentralise and move communities from world, I supported that. When you wanted to merge struggling communities I supported that. Now that you're trying to merge for the sake of it, I don't support that.

There are only so many active posters on a specific topic, so having everyone contributing to the same community helps fostering better discussions rather than everyone posting on a different community. The discussions that will happen in the comments in the dbzer0 won't be visible for people who follow the programming.dev community.

If you feel there's only so many active posters, go post to them instead of harassing me. Pied Piper didn't end with him annoying the rats to death.

Let's also not forget that on top of [email protected], there is also [email protected] that has a few regular posters, which makes the whole fragmentation even worse.

What's it gotta do with you? Why are you trying to force it?

If I were to create a community on your home instance, [email protected], would you start posting there too?

I couldn't tell you a single community on this instance, so no. I wouldn't even know it existed.

To be honest, I would care less if everyone was using Piefed,

See this is funny. Part of why I'm here is to get away from Reddit and Reddit like experiences. I don't like /ALL and don't want to interact with posters that don't understand the nauce of communities. That you want to create this linear mess is a you problem. Leave the rest of us alone. The beauty of Lemmy is the decentralisation. Multiple communities, different admins and different members.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

But at the same time, you still post to [email protected]

very-intelligent

Dbzer0 was selected as the main non-ml community 7 months ago in this thread: https://lazysoci.al/post/21253059

smuglord 'some people made a collective decision (that didn't involve you) that everyone should move to my preferred forum, and here you are!'

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago

‘some people made a collective decision (that didn’t involve you) that everyone should move to my preferred forum, and here you are!’

Active posters decided where to post. As fxomt said in another comment

the real say comes from the active posters themselves, so there is nothing much i can do.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago

Good, the sooner .ml domains fall off the better

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