Hi guys, I was sitting at the bar a few hours ago with a flight of ideas surrounding the whole shibam that has been happening(people leaving Reddit for Lemmy), I’ve noticed it’s very easy to get traction around here.
I think many of us are still grasping what the whole lemmyverse is, and how it works, and how inovative it is in the sense of it being a new foundation.
As my mind wandered, I decided to create communities for each of the different towns around me, and the I proceeded to look up towns in Ontario in order of population.
I’ve been going through the list top down, typing in the name of the town in Lemmy to see if there is an existing community, if there isnt, I create one. Even if the town is 5000 people.
I have this hope that Lemmy, or even website in general within the fediverse, gradually replace shitty social media platforms.
I want it to be more than just an online social space, but a space where people can even use to connect in real life.
I know Reddit had some of that, but it didn’t feel like a useful tool for that sort of stuff, while I feel like Lemmy has a whole new potential.
Like I said, this is a project, over the next few days once I have all the communities and links compiled, I will create a Lemmy Ontario town index.
Edit: And it’s done! https://lemmy.ca/c/ontario_index
Not sure if that’s a load per community, might run it by the Instance admin.
I’d second what @niisyth said - I’d probably run this by admins first to make sure that doing this is okay and not harming the instance from a technical perspective.
Another thing to consider: You may want to contribute to existing communities before creating multiple empty ones. I think it would be great to give every town / city in Ontario it’s own community, but this could deter people from joining as it would give them the impression that it’s an empty wasteland / graveyard in here (when it’s not).
If you live in a small city/town/village, by all means create a community for it - but I would focus on nurturing it first before expanding to take on other ones.
This is just my two cents though - I leave the executive decision up to you (and the instance admins) 😎
What about the Regions, like York Region, Waterloo Region, etc? Would it make sense to have lemmy communities for them, too?
