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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

I've personally developed my system as:

  1. If there are multiple communities, which is the most popular?
  2. If the most popular community is on a problematic instance, skip to the next most popular that is also on a good instance.

That takes away the paralysis, at least for me.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

What do you do when there are two similarly active communities?

[–] ericjmorey@discuss.online 3 points 14 hours ago

Post on the one with the most recent post.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Hm, I can't recall encountering that yet, but I can see how that would be a harder one to decide. I suppose I might cycle between them.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

I try to avoid posting to .world if there's a viable alternative, personally, so I'd opt for lemdro.id consistantly. I do the same with the videos communities, where I've been trying to boost !videos@sopuli.xyz instead of posting to videos at .world.

But if it wasn't .world, the situation wouldn't be ideal, and I'd support combining the communities if the mods were down for it.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I've raised the issue to the LW mods a few months ago, they told me they were not interested in merging. The active mods being on the LW staff, it make sense.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 hours ago

That's unfortunate :(

[–] humiddragonslayer@lemm.ee 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I think it's fair to choose the smaller instance then, in the interest of diversification.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago

Indeed, but as long as other people still prefer the LW version both communities will continue to splinter the conversations