Comment on Requesting c/heavymetal
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 hours agoHey, if you wanna try, go for it.
I’d say you’d serve the lemmyverse better by starting one fresh on a different instance, since there’s already issues with .world having laggy federation.
As a user, and a metal head, drawing a distinction been between “metal” and “heavy metal” is, well, a circle jerk. Now, a fresh nwobhm specific one, that makes sense; as lemmy does seem to keep growing slowly, so there’s eventually going to be enough users that genre specific communities is useful.
I hate throwing circle jerk in there like that, but I can’t think of a less aggressive term that still expresses the lack of any real difference outside of very narrow usage that even fairly dedicated genre heads don’t always use.
serpineslair@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Thanks for your input. I see what you mean about nwobhm specific community, however to me that seems like having a community dedicated to only speed metal, a little unnecessary. To be completely honest, when I think of heavy metal, I’m really associating that with old-school heavy metal (as in style, not necessarily age), as opposed to just generic modern metal with no deeper subgenre associated. By all means that sorta stuff should just be posted to the generic metal community, along with newer, miscellaneous experimental stuff. I’m envisioning this community to be based around traditional-style heavy metal and like you mentioned, nwobhm. Could also be a cool place to find older hidden gems.
The way I see it, no harm done either way. If it doesn’t gain traction, then it doesn’t gain traction, nothing changes. However, I think it will be interesting to see the demand (or lack thereof) for this type of community.
Whilst I could create the community on a different instance, to me it makes more sense to have it on my home instance. Also it is more likely to gain traction on here, and it seems more logical to revive a dead community, then make a new one completely, under the same name. Long term, I think that works better than having a ton of dead communities under the same name on different instances, which is certainly sure to make the fediverse less user-friendly to newbies. Once the fediverse has a significant number of MAUs then we can worry about decentralising a little more. Anyway, I’m getting a little sidetracked here.
Assuming ownership is actually transferred to me in the first place, think I’m just going to go for it.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Nothing wrong with that!
And it is easier to moderate from the same instance as the community.
The good thing about lemmy is that you can change the display name of a community, so no matter what the !***@ part is, you could tweak it to show as whatever, if you wanted to.