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Overcomplicating things
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this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2024
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The practical reason it exists is because a lot of Lemmy users are looking for a replacement to Reddit, so the first thing they do after signing up is try to find communities that match the subreddits they were subscribed to. If you create a community that shares a name with a popular subreddit, you're more likely to get members to join.
I agree with you for the record, the racially segregated communities has always been a bit icky and there's really no need for it on Lemmy.
There was a gold rush to copy every single subreddit over here yet they didn't copy the reasons they exist or anything that made them special. The fact that nostupidquestions is a general "ask anything" community is a great example.
So many communities on this site are just uncreative shells filled with archival posts from reddit. I find it both sad and annoying.
This place doesn't have enough traffic for No Stupid Question to be meaningfully different from Ask Lemmy yet.
It doesn't have the sidebar rules yet, either. "we'll narrow it down later" is a weak plan
So is "narrow it down and no one posts anymore" though. Both sides have a fair argument here imo.
at this point Twitter is so dead that the only good posts are archival anyways. maybe we could have c/TwitterArchives or something
I like microblogmemes. These guys have Dying Twitter: