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Skates@feddit.nl 2 months ago
No. Aside from the low number of users, the fact that you can have the same community in different instances means a community will never grow large enough. Add to that the “you’re literally killing children if you’re a centrist” people and all the tankies, and what you have here is a leftist circlejerk that will remain small and irelevant enough to suit its need to be an echo chamber without any actual diversity.
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Isn’t !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com an example of a community which grew large enough to become the reference?
Skates@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Not sure. I can’t remember right now why I blocked dbzer0 completely, but my filters are blocking this instance. Which I guess is another side of the same coin: defederation (and allowing entire instances to be blocked) also contributes to fragmentation of communities. I had no idea the largest piracy community is on dbzer0, so I would subscribe to another piracy community on another instance, and thus split the memberships even more.
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
lemmyverse.net/communities allows to search for the most active communities
!europe@feddit.org is another example of community which is the established one for a topic