Hello,

I'm actually happy to talk about LW centralization at large. It's a topic I like to discuss on !fedigrow@lemm.ee, feel free to join us there.

To come back to your questions, there are different types of communities depending on how popular the topic is

• very popular topics (tech, news, memes, politics) exist on Lemmy on a lot of different instances. !technology@lemmy.zip, !technology@lemmy.world, !technology@lemmy.ml, etc. They are all active, no need to worry about those.
• moderately popular topics: in this case, usually there is a large LW community, and then a smaller non-LW community. A mentioned "movies" above as an example, there is a whole list at the end of this post.
• low activity topics: here, there is only one community, and it's not that active. It is on LW, but the community is already so small that getting it active is a higher priority than bringing people to another instance. Examples: !football@lemmy.world, !parenting@lemmy.world, !television@lemmy.world, !avatar@lemmy.world

I feel like StarGate probably belongs in the third group, which is why I suggested you to consolidate with the existing LW communities.

Also, lemmy.ml have faced some powertripping complaints:

• https://reddthat.com/post/20166234
• followed by some people organizing to get communities off there too: https://reddthat.com/post/20197120

Extremely weird considering you run a generic fantasy community which already exists in many places so felt a little kettle/pot.

Interesting, I had actually forgotten about that community, which is why the last post there is 2 months ago. I'll probably close it in the coming weeks and redirect elsewhere, after asking the community feedback.

On the other hand, I actively post to all of the following communities, to try to keep them off LW

• !movies@lemm.ee
• !interestingasfuck@lemm.ee
• !casualconversation@lemm.ee
• !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
• !dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz
• !imaginary@reddthat.com
• !android@lemdro.id
• !linux@programming.dev