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I always like there are basically two types of topics (because after all, communities are focused on a topic)

• either you have enough of a userbase to have your own flavour on the topic, for instance all the gaming communities that exist on different instances, which all co-exist next to each other, and it wouldn't really make sense to merge them all
• or you don't have enough people, and in this case you should just agree on one instance where to host the community and be done with it

I know there is the political aspect to take into account, but for me that comes back to the first point: if enough people of the same political side want to talk about something between them, that's good. If not, they might have to put that aside and go for the second option.

All that said, I think a lot of communities probably should be looking at negotiating a merge.

Strong agree

Don’t want to be ostracized because your user is registered on the wrong politic instance ? Join biggest instance instead.

There are plenty of politically neutral instance. Most of them are, actually, the only ones that come to mind as politically oriented are hexbear, lemmygrad and to an extend, lemmy.ml.

That leaves lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, all the feddit.country, discuss.tchncs.de, sopuli.xyz, reddthat.com, lemmy.zip as neutral alternatives

There are several examples of communities moving from instance to another, or refusing a mod powertrip.

!unixporn@lemmy.world was an attempt from the mods subreddit to get the community back, but most of the people rejected that and stayed on !unixporn@lemmy.ml.

Small scale example, but I like the show "the Office". !dundermifflin@lemmy.ml is the historical community, but as some people are not fans of lemmy.ml, we moved to !dundermifflin@lemm.ee, which is now the most active community on this topic.

I guess that shows that community takeover is possible, and does not need additional tools, just some time and dedication.

Also, keep in mind that except if there is a real reason (admin/mods powertripping, problematic instance direction), there is no incentive for users to move to another community. But the important thing is that the possibility is very much there, and helps keeping everyone in check.

Meet the new boss, same as old boss.

Who's Lemmy's spez?

• The Lemmy devs operate lemmy.ml, but it's far from being the most active one (it's currently the 5th): https://lemmyverse.net/?order=active_day
• Large instances admins? The most active communities are spread across dbzer0, lemmy.world, programming.dev, lemm.ee, feddit.de, etc.: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active

The main difference of Lemmy compared to Reddit is the ability that communities have to walk away, as I explained in another comment: https://discuss.online/comment/5393546

I already posted to anotherserver/c/books and no one ever saw it.

Did you promote that community on !newcommunities@lemmy.world and other promotion communities? Did you actively post on your new community, to attract users to your new one?

I'm going to take two examples I personally had

• I'm not a fan of having all discussions on LW, so even if !movies@lemmy.world was the most active one, we decided with a few others to start animating !moviesandtv@lemm.ee. It is now the most active community on that topic.
• I like the show "the Office". !dundermifflin@lemmy.ml is the historical community, but as some people are not fans of lemmy.ml, we moved to !dundermifflin@lemm.ee, which is now the most active community on this topic.

I guess that shows that community takeover is possible, and does not need additional tools, just some time and dedication.

Doesn't !books@lemmy.ml and !books@lemmy.world direct you to yourinstance.org/c/books@lemmy.ml and yourinstance.org/c/books@lemmy.world respectively?

They are cute

This is the power of the Daemon

I don't know unfortunately, hope someone can help!

Why that hate from Britons towards Belgium? Can anyone from the UK confirm?

Indeed, I've seen it in most of Europe, just saw the meme in another community and crossposted it

I guess that's the same for most of the userbase. Which is probably why switching to a more spread language could increase the number of contributors.