Active User Growth
[email protected], textsfromsolarpunk, up 39.4% to 1899, (18 posts)
[email protected], LaTeX, up 25.8% to 58, (6 posts)
[email protected], MEOW_IRL, up 22.4% to 1935, (287 posts)
[email protected], Gardening, up 18.6% to 103, (26 posts)
[email protected], Beyond app, up 18.3% to 34, (10 posts)
[email protected], A place to call home for folks who grow mushrooms!, up 14.4% to 21, (11 posts)
[email protected], Ubuntu (Linux), up 14.3% to 30, (56 posts)
[email protected], Niedersachsen, up 14.2% to 26, (7 posts)
[email protected], Imaginary Dragons, up 14.2% to 74, (34 posts)
[email protected], CPTSD, up 14.2% to 19, (31 posts)
[email protected], Clever Comebacks, up 14.2% to 349, (27 posts)
[email protected], Cleveland, up 14.2% to 48, (82 posts)
[email protected], Atlanta, GA, up 14.2% to 35, (5 posts)
[email protected], Punk Rock, up 13.5% to 86, (272 posts)
[email protected], Learn the Chinese language, up 13.5% to 52, (39 posts)
[email protected], Piracy, up 13.2% to 709, (466 posts)
[email protected], Lunarpunk, up 13.2% to 257, (21 posts)
[email protected], Bad Movies, up 10.0% to 21, (42 posts)
[email protected], Gaming Dice, up 9.1% to 66, (20 posts)
[email protected], Always the Same Map, up 8.6% to 48, (90 posts)
[email protected], Software Gore, up 8.3% to 198, (166 posts)
[email protected], Adventure / Point-and-Click / Narrative Games, up 8.2% to 101, (39 posts)
[email protected], Let's Talk About Games, up 7.7% to 305, (18 posts)
[email protected], Wissenschaft, up 7.3% to 121, (163 posts)
[email protected], Liverpool, up 7.1% to 12, (26 posts)
[email protected], Paleofauna, up 7.0% to 20, (49 posts)
[email protected], Indiana, up 6.8% to 585, (59 posts)
[email protected], MonkeyUser, up 5.7% to 1032, (26 posts)
[email protected], Suomi / Finland, up 4.7% to 10, (4 posts)
[email protected], Mlem for Lemmy, up 4.1% to 371, (296 posts)
[email protected], Learn Japanese, up 4.0% to 46, (15 posts)
[email protected], Home Video (VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, 4k), up 3.8% to 340, (199 posts)
[email protected], Unpopular Opinion, up 3.3% to 1025, (228 posts)
[email protected], Reddit, up 3.3% to 339, (506 posts)
[email protected], Deus Ex, up 3.0% to 822, (37 posts)
[email protected], The fifth world., up 2.8% to 15, (21 posts)
[email protected], Neurodiversity, up 2.5% to 14, (25 posts)
[email protected], Music, up 2.4% to 215, (1203 posts)
[email protected], Plan9, up 2.2% to 12, (11 posts)
[email protected], meta, up 2.1% to 30, (49 posts)
[email protected], Melbourne Trains, up 2.0% to 112, (95 posts)
[email protected], Tucson Politics, up 1.6% to 276, (906 posts)
[email protected], Do It Yourself, up 1.5% to 22, (129 posts)
[email protected], Balcony Gardening, up 1.5% to 84, (25 posts)
Subscriber Growth
[email protected], NoVA / Northern Virginia, up 0.2% to 441, (121 posts, 2 recent)
[email protected], Learning Rust and Lemmy, up 30.1% to 195, (18 posts, 10 recent)
[email protected], Trans, up 25.6% to 124, (34 posts, 31 recent)
[email protected], Actual Discussion, up 1.2% to 104, (12 posts, 8 recent)
[email protected], Sweet Graffiti and other acts of wholesome vandalism, up 0.8% to 82, (24 posts, 4 recent)
[email protected], Independent Movies, Series and Documentaries, up 0.7% to 26, (9 posts, 3 recent)
[email protected], Trams, Trolleys and Streetcars, up 0.4% to 23, (8 posts, 3 recent)
[email protected], TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name, up 0.4% to 1692, (565 posts, 106 recent)
[email protected], Internet of Shit, up 0.4% to 143, (6 posts, 2 recent)
[email protected], Hello Internet, up 0.3% to 43, (13 posts, 4 recent)
[email protected], Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm', up 0.2% to 103, (37 posts, 17 recent)
[email protected], askmenover30, up 0.2% to 287, (18 posts, 8 recent)
[email protected], Harry Potter, up 0.1% to 145, (35 posts, 5 recent)
(Results are averaged over the past 7 days)
It's up to debate, but to me if the mod isn't active for the community (e.g. posting regularly), they should ask for someone else to take up that role. And if nobody wants the role, and there is another active community to redirect too, it could be nice to lock the inactive community down and redirect to the active one.
I mod a few inactive communities (such as [email protected] ). If someone came to me and said "hey, we've been trying to get our own HP community active, you already have some people on yours, would you mind locking yours down as you don't seem to actively mod it, and redirect to ours?" I would definitely do it.
They are not, but at the same time the LW rules still allow them to namesquat that community.
For the instance, as long as you take the big ones (LW, lemm.ee, SJW, dbzer0, lemmy.ca, etc.), your experience will indeed be the same. To know which community to post too, this is a different story, and I've seen a lot of people telling me "I stay on Reddit because when I when to post about a topic, there's a clear community where to. On Lemmy, there are two or three active communities competing for the same topic, and it's just confusing". Of course we should keep different communities for different folks (no one would consider merging lemmy.ml communities with LW's), but we can also reduce the confusion for a few core topics that can help new joiners to get settled
They are not, but as I said earlier, LW is so large than they have to be extra cautious with their updates. If they would be 20% of the total Lemmy population, and 30 of the top 100 communities compared to now, they would probably be more at ease with "me can mess up a bit, it's okay". Having them as a cornerstone of the whole platform puts them constantly under the spotlight.