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?
As a side comment, I started to post everyday on !parenting@lemmy.world
I just didn’t feel like creating another community from scratch, and @Tot@lemmy.world was already there as a mod, so I just used it.
I know it’s not perfect as it’s another LW community, but I guess that’s good enough for now.
Yup, this one seems like a no-brainer: !fatherverse@midwest.social
- Has an active mod
- Is not on LW or ml
- Has a great name
We don’t often get all three.
I love the idea of a consolidated fatherverse.
You get back into reddit territory… But one place for new dads to be able to search for answers would be lovely.
When my wife became pregnant, daddit on Reddit gave me answers, support and tips for pregnancy, childbirth and bringing the rascal home.
It would be nice to have a place like that here.
Yeah, I vote fatherverse, not only for the active mod but it has the best name.
Consolidating communities defeats part of the purpose of federation and decentralization.
Having the community on an instance other than lemmy.world and lemmy.ml is decentralizing.
The other parameter is that with 50k monthly active users, there is only so much activity on a specific topic.
Having it spread over 7 communities kills activity rather than keeping 1 community alive.
Encourage cross posting. The function is viable, and when it’s used, it not only improves each community individually, it keeps awareness of other options.
The only thing “killing activity” is people nodding being unaware of cross posting existing and/or using it.
Crossposts don’t aggregate comments. If you ask “How was your father’s day” on 7 dad communities, you are going to split the answers across the 7 communities.
