because they are the baseline founding communities and the resulting conversations have discourse hidden from you that they don’t and can freely attempt to manipulate.
.ml doesn’t have the most active communities since a few years
The current system is flawed. This system will always carry its foundational weaknesses. Your counterexamples are examples of the dissection you have to force, never mind that it does not address the problem at the user level.
Could they remain in !asklemmy@lemmy.ml and continue to participate in !asklemmy@lemmy.world? If not, then they had to force themselves to begin posting and commenting elsewhere. For casual users, it is organic because they just go to the Active listings, but the dissection is still there. Hunting for minutiae like this and how you can redefine things into other things does not address the elephant in the room.
.ml doesn’t have the most active communities since a few years
!asklemmy@lemmy.world is much more active than !asklemmy@lemmy.ml , !fediverse@lemmy.world is much more active than !fediverse@lemmy.ml
For the few remaining, there are usually alternatives, e.g. !privacy@lemmy.ml , but !privacy@programming.dev is a valid alternative
Problem is, I’ve heard, that .ml and .world share funding and isn’t .dev tankie ridden too? Either that or it’s full of AI bros, I could be wrong.
Ml and world definitely don’t share funding, and .dev isn’t tankie ridden as far as I know
The current system is flawed. This system will always carry its foundational weaknesses. Your counterexamples are examples of the dissection you have to force, never mind that it does not address the problem at the user level.
Nobody had to force !asklemmy@lemmy.world to overcome !asklemmy@lemmy.ml , it just happened organically as LW grew its userbase
Could they remain in !asklemmy@lemmy.ml and continue to participate in !asklemmy@lemmy.world? If not, then they had to force themselves to begin posting and commenting elsewhere. For casual users, it is organic because they just go to the Active listings, but the dissection is still there. Hunting for minutiae like this and how you can redefine things into other things does not address the elephant in the room.