see a lot of discussion about adding more specific communities on this instance and I feel as if it will dilute the community too much.

I personally see Lemmy instances as somewhat similar to old forums, many of those did so well because the community came together under a shared experience.

Lemmy is decentralized after all and instances based around interests will get created and discussion will get focused on certain instances for certain topics. Those instances will be moderated by the people who have passion and understanding for those topics.

Of course the great thing about Lemmy is that we’re (mostly) free to visit other instances and if there are redundant communities it is not difficult to participate in them.

I do think it’s nice to have a place to call home, a “hive” if you will. Where users can discuss their shared experience on the fediverse.

  • birdEnglish
    9•11 months ago

    I just wanted to say THANK YOU for making a PopHeads equivalent. It’s a direly needed space adjacent to a general Music community, as we’ve all experienced from Reddit.

    • ScrubblesEnglish
      4•11 months ago

      Thanks :) I love(d) the /r/TaylorSwift and /r/PopHeads community on Reddit and got probably well over half my total karma from those two places. People were always so nice, if a little unhinged lol. I hope we can build this community up.

      Working on adding a pop memes community next? Just need a name… popmemes? memetos and pop? I can run a server but I am not a creative person.

      • birdEnglish
        3•11 months ago

        I mostly frequented PH and PHCJ.

        I know there’s lots of love for TS, I’ve never really been a diehard fan. But I’d be lying if I wasn’t living for all her relationship/PR drama lately. 💀

        • ScrubblesEnglish
          2•11 months ago

          That’s fair, and I’m a die-hard swiftie lol. That’s why I made the instance generic to start with, figure we can fracture out later