Right now on Lemmy we have a bunch of dad-based communities with varying levels of discussion. From the ones I can find, we have:
!dadworld@lemmy.world - last few posts were about a month ago. Mod was last active 10 months ago.
!daddit@kbin.social - last couple posts were about 2 months ago. The post before that was about 5 months ago. Not sure about mod activity.
!dads@feddit.uk - last post was yesterday, with some other posts in past few weeks. Mod was last active 6 months ago.
!dadsonly@lemmy.world - last post was a few weeks ago, with a couple months in between posts after that. Mod was last active 10 months ago.
!dadsplain@lemmy.ca - last couple posts were a week ago. With about a month or so between posts after that. Both mods were last active a year ago.
!dadvice@lemmy.world - last post was 3 months ago. Mod was last active 2 months ago.
!fatherverse@midwest.social - last post was about a month ago, and the one before that was about 4 months ago. Mod was last active today.
To help facilitate discussion, what do you all think about consolidating the dad-based discussion to one of those groups (preferably a somewhat moderated one, which just seems to be fatherverse…) for now?
Having three dad communities on lemmy.world is weird and needs sorting out but one of the advantages of subject-specific instances is that they can give a different spin to a topic.
On English-speaking social media, it all tends to become very US-centric - the UK (and, presumably, Canadian, and, hypothetically, an Australian one) allows for people to have more local discussion as the logistics (schools, benefits, the legal system, etc) can be very different.
By the same token, I wouldn't want all the other dad communities merged into the feddit.uk one (which is the most active, despite the Mod being AWOL, which is easily fixed) as it isn't just a general dad's discussion, although all dad's are welcome, of course.
I see where you come from.
That's why I try to keep both !yurop@lemm.ee and !casualconversation@lemm.ee active, while they have more or less the same topics.
Some communities are made to be "Internet inclusive", some other are more "location grounded"
I guess sometimes the Lemmy population is not large enough to have "location grounded" communities, so it might be better to merge into the "all inclusive" one
Last point: as a non-native European, I never really paid attention to the English-speaking social media being very US-centric, hopefully that's a bias we can correct here on Lemmy.
Lemmy.world is the biggest instance and managed by a team located (at least partially) in the Netherlands, so that's a nice change compared to Reddit
I'm working on it. And there are Canadian and Australian instances doing their bit too.
I know, and that's great! Lemm.ee, feddit.de, feddit.dk, feddit.it and all the others are great!
But on that topic, that still brings us to the question of "should an instance with a country TLD be limited to content of that country?"
Someone on Lemmy.ca brought that point up a few days back:
https://lemmy.ca/post/22625492/9613729
So that comes back to the point I mentioned above. When I created !yurop@lemm.ee on lemm.ee, it was obvious that it wasn't going to be limited to Estonians.
However, when a community is created on feddit.uk, it can be centered on a local approach to a thematic (such as !nature@feddit.uk ). Which is great, but as I said, we are probably still very early in the stage of having different dad communities on Lemmy, so having mainly one (whatever instance it is on) might be more effective for activity