plus niche populated community for every possible topic

Reckon if I subtly cross-post to r/MelbourneTrains I'll get banned on Reddit haha

One way to find out

!showerthoughts@lemmy.world

!asklemmy@lemmy.world

Don't forget Lotr.

very true, but slowly getting negated by deleted posts and militant moderation, maybe we'll hit a middleground eventually

Disturbed

Note, it's shrinking a little less when you account for Piefed and Mbin into the overall.

That kinda highlights the problem. Search "scuba". There are 4 separate communities:

There are 39 total posts between them, but the one tied with the most posts has zero active users. The one with the most comments ranks 3rd in posts and only has one active user. The one with the most active user only has 2 comments according to the search.

If I search the same term on sync while signed into .world, I get different communities and very different user counts for those that are in both searches:

None of these communities are really active. But between them they would have had have the user base to get it going. Finding a community and getting the critical mass needed for it to thrive is made much harder with this amount of fragmentation.

Oh I agree, that's why some users push for consolidation of communities into one single community. I'm just noting that abandoned communities on the fediverse are better presented on Piefed as if there is an active community in the topic you're looking for, it will be obviously visible ahead of all the others.

As for reddit, there's not really much left to make on Reddit anymore. Almost every name is taken and sat on by moderators - and it's pretty hard to meaningfully advertise any new community.

Not that I think Scuba Diving has enough base users on the Fediverse to begin with at this point. Most of those users subscribed are likely abandoned accounts.

It's the reddit community I most consistently miss. The community there is huge and very active, as are spinoff subs like underwater photography.

But I decided to leave reddit in 2023 with the API changes, and I've resisted going back. I like Lemmy, but I feel like I just have to keep my feed set to all, whereas on reddit I had a highly curated list of subs.

A tankie is generally considered someone so immersed deeply into their echo chamber of alternative facts that they can deny not merely the morality or the consequences but the actual and literal validity of occurrence of events such as the Holocaust or the Tiananmen Square Massacre (the tanks were there but killed nobody on that day, etc.). They tend to be exceedingly pro-authoritarian, even while claiming to be "communist" or "leftist", but redefining those terms to fit their particular worldview. So e.g. Ukraine invaded Russia rather than the other way around and so on. A hallmark of a tankie space is that nothing bad is ever allowed to be spoken about Russia, China, or North Korea.

I suppose claiming that Stalin had the right to kill people is a technically accurate form of tankie by the standard dictionary definition of that term, but that is fairly tame compared to what goes on across the Threadiverse, so much so that such a person would barely qualify unless they acted to prevent anyone else from holding an opposing viewpoint. Also, while some instances are legit tankies (namely Lemmygrad.ml and Lemmy.ml), troll instances such as hexbear.net only appear at first to be anything other than argumentative echo chambers, see e.g. Chapotraphouse@hexbear.net (defederated from on both of our instances, bc of the aforementioned trolling

I could link you so many posts to explain further - such as this classic Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem demonstrating how someone can get banned from all communities (in other cases, even those they've never so much as heard of) on Lemmy.ml at once - but also there's an entire community dedicated to this topic at !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works. If you are interested I highly recommend checking it out. It is perhaps the top issue across all of the Threadiverse, after complaining about Reddit of course:-).

Blocking hexbear.net and Lemmygrad.ml from my feed (when I was on an instance that had not defederated from them yet) improved my experience on the Threadiverse by 99%, and blocking lemmy.ml by a further 99%. It might be the echo chamber effect but whatever it is, the most trollish comments tend to come from those places. Note that you on Lemmy cannot do a true block of an instance - like so many other features that is something that PieFed and very few third party apps offers but Lemmy and most apps lack - but even so it might help a little.

Slrpnk.net and lemmy.dbzer0.com are widely considered actual leftist but not tankie instances, if you need a comparison.

Star Ship Troopers is basically American Fascists In Space. The movie is tongue in cheek. (Though in the book, the author is quite serious).

So scenes from the movie are going to give a Nazi vibe, but isn't about supporting Nazis.

Reddit also has the problem that if someone makes a community and starts moderating like a dinghole, it can be hard to get people to join one with better moderation.

With federation you can have the same name multiple times, so when people search "[hobby]" they can see all of them.

Then you could have a merged view of all the [hobby] from different sources, and if a mod who arbitrarily decides to interpret the rules unfairly or err on the side of permanent bans without discussion, warnings, or recourse, you can at least still interact with other [hobby].