Hello everyone,
I raised the point recently already, but to make it short
- there is an active poster on !privacy@programming.dev
- !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com is mostly me and @cm0002@lemmy.world
- I think it would be beneficial to consolidate on one community rather than crosspost content from one to the other
I tried to reach out to the active poster, who posted to the lemmy.dbzer0 community in the past before switching back to programming.dev, and I guess they disagree with some of the stances of dbzer0 (probably the pro AI one)
Programming.dev has a few hiccups from time to time, but for a few months it has been stable
What do people think?
It does seem to be an ideological opposition to db0’s AI stance, though it doesn’t really make sense to me because, like you said, c/privacy doesn’t have anything to do with AI: https://lemmy.nz/comment/15894250
I can’t really see the benefit in bending over backwards to accommodate someone who won’t even communicate.
Exactly, I struggle to see why we should destroy the community that already seems healthy enough for a poster who didn’t even respond to the DM.
I’m not even pro AI myself, but I find it silly to consolidate/quit a community over it when there’s literally no AI content there anyway (also, pro-AI rules aren’t even enforced on the dbzer0 version, I couldn’t care less about anti/pro AI sentiment.)
The community is only as active as regular posters are.
If I or @cm0002@lemmy.world switch to the programming.dev community, over time it will become more active than the dbzer0 version
As I said elsewhere, I’m just tired of not being able to have a single community as an alternative to .ml
Also, it’s not about destroying a community, merely locking it. You can reopen it later if issues happen with the programming.dev one
At this point, I would rather follow the single organic active poster on that topic as long as they post on an ok instance (which programming.dev is)
I’m a bit burnt out of trying to have alternatives to lemmy.ml communities. We’ve been trying for more than a year by now (https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/21760805), and we didn’t manage to get any of the alternatives communities to get even on par with the .ml one
When external projects or contributors post to Lemmy about their project, like Framasoft or Comaps, they do it on .ml communities
Either we all agree that the .ml communities stay the default ones on those topics, and that our attempt was a failure, or we agree to follow organic posters where they are.
I can understand that, it is an uphill battle. !linux@programming.dev at least is doing well.
It’s just annoying from a user perspective to have to keep up with all this intricate instance politics for a single comm. Maybe p.dev is the right choice just because it’s so uncontroversial so won’t cause issues.
Yes, !linux@programming.dev is in a better shape.
Definitely. That’s why I’m always advocating for a single community, all posters post there, after a bit mods of the inactive communities suggest to their communities to get locked down and point to the active one.
And yes, that’s my feeling too about p.dev