Mostly just curious, How come people can’t create their own communities here? What was the reasoning behind this? I’d love it if people could create their own communities and appeal to tiny niches. (i know I can find most of them via federation but some I can’t)
If you look at the server that I am on (feddit.de) then you’ll see the result of allowing everyone to make their own community. On reddit somehow a million empty subs don’t matter, but here they’re kinda annoying and all dead.
Still like this server a lot though :)
i’d say this mostly has to do with the fact that 1) reddit can paper over all of those very tiny subs with its huge, active ones that you’re likely to run into first; and 2) any sub on a topic people want to talk about will eventually find a community on reddit due to its size (but you can’t say that about here yet, where even general communities might struggle to find more than a few users)
Yeah I believe if lemmy had a larger user base it wouldn’t be a problem. Also I don’t really have an idea how to fix this problem. I like how beehaw handles it but I also like that there are servers where users can make their own communities without asking first.
I like the idea of servers allowing anyone to make their own community if they can give a plan on how it won’t end up dead.
I see, thanks!