I saw one of your alts then banned
Huh? What alt? Banned where?
But I'll probably just open a post on !askandroid@lemdro.id to see what people over there think.
And this is what I'm talking about when I talk about ego. The Ask Android community is there to enable people to ask questions and find answers, you don't post there and yet you want to close it for your own vanity.
All comments you see mentioning "every time I look for a community on Lemmy to ask a question, it's a ghost town".
So let it be a ghost town. Again, there's many good communities that aren't the biggest on Lemmy and they're a success. What makes them a success, the fact that people go back and enjoy them.
Most users just go for the community with the higher number of subs / MAU.
Those are literally all of the users I'm trying to avoid. My great Lemmy experience relies on me not having to come across those people.
This is the main reason why !privacy@lemmy.ml and !linux@lemmy.ml are still the largest communities by far while !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com and !linux@programming.dev exist.
It's just called traction. There was never a compelling reason to move. It's not like football which got locked so everyone was forced to move.
If we want decentralization, the non-LW/ml communities have to be better, otherwise network effect just brings people there naturally.
I want Lemmy. I don't want Blaze's Lemmy or my Lemmy, I just wanna Lemmy. Not everything needs you or my fingerprints on it.
If you prefer not to interfere with that, that's okay, but I'm not sure why criticizing people who try to (and it's not only me, you see other people like @threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works doing a great job consolidating inactive communities: https://lemmy.zip/post/40774008) helps with decentralization.
Because this isn't coming from a good place.
If you were trying to consolidate android@lw and android@lemdroid and android@whatever I could see where you're coming from, but you're literally just being a community Nazi. I can't support that.
But we're both part of that community. Me suggesting something to you isn't something that happens in a vacuum, it's two regular poster of the community/instance who discuss where posts are made.
The posts are fine where they are. If I want to discuss features/news I go to android, if I have a question, I go to askandroid
The first prerequisite to have a good time is to have people to interact with.
The prerequisite is having some integrity.