Yeah, this one is PTB territory for sure.

While balancing decentralized communities with making it easy to find and use communities is always going to be difficult, you don’t use your mod position and admin position to try and force whatever side you think is best. That is part of the reason multiple communities on multiple instances are a good thing.

Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of times where consolidating onto the most visible community for a given topic makes sense. There’s times it’s necessary even, rather than optional, particularly when one of the communities is on an instance where it’s essentially useless. But the whole reason lemmy works is it not being conglomerated entirely.

Yeah, .world is the biggest instance, so there’s a good bit of gravity. It makes sense for more niche, smaller, or hard to search for communities to land there. When a community is already going to have trouble being used, you remove as many barriers as possible. If I was going to start the C/ menwholookandsmelllikesasquatch , I’d start it on .world, not bumfuck.nowhere. Also, if I ever run my own instance, that’s what I’m going to name it.

But LoL? C’mon, lemmy can support multiples of that. Not even just two, you could have half a dozen and it would be fine. Moderation styles alone will give each their own vibe.

An example from reddit. I play a mobile game. The main, big sub on reddit for it is tightly moderated, with daily and weekly threads to streamline the usual questions and repetitive posts. So you get more dedicated players, doing deep theory crafting, min-maxing, etc. The smaller sub is definitely flooded with the usual noob questions posted fifteen times a week, but the vibe is looser, more prone to joking and casual play.

A game as big as LoL? You could have a dozen forums and each would be worth using for different reasons.

Which is another long winded tangent, but it points out exactly how useless the argument that the PTB was making is.