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this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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I noticed the c/Formula 1 on Lemmy.world is not on the list of partners.
Is there any communication or coordination between those two? While this one seems more active, the other one has more members (strangely).
I posted early on in that sub about merging/coordinating with this one and the mod replied they weren't closing the sub and removed my post. Note there is (or at least was at the time) nothing in the community or instance rules prohibiting discussion of other communities. And also... like... 90% of Lemmy is new users finding new communities (including that mod, whose account was like 4d old at the time). Prohibiting discussion of other communities is just... wildly against the spirit of what's happening right now. Neither mod group seems to acknowledge the other in at-mentions either.
Anyway, it's a small data point but my somewhat speculative take is the mod over there is power tripping and I've avoided it since.
The sub numbers can be confusing to read. I believe when viewing the sub count of a remote community, you see only subscribers from your instance... But when viewing a local community you see all subscribers. At any rate, if you look at each community on its home server you see:
To my knowledge we do not have any rules against talking about other communities. I will bring it up with the other mods. With the way Lemmy works there will be other subs of the same name with cross subs. I’m going to be subbed to any F1 sub I can find.
Allowing discussion of other communities does seem to me to be the reasonable take, especially given how early days things are with Lemmy. I hope it remains allowed here. If there's a rule to be enforced, I would suggest to frame it around promotion in general. Announcing the creation of a related thing (Lemmy community or other) seems quite reasonable. Mentioning it occasionally in on-topic comments also seems reasonable (which is how I would characterize this thread). If a person or group engages in a concerted advertising campaign, an excessive-promotion rule could provide a framework to limit that without impinging on organic discussion of other F1 resources/communities.
I certainly get this approach, and encourage folks to do what works for them. For me, I dislike getting lots of dupe posts about major news, and I think that outside of "frontpage" size communities like tech/news Lemmy is still too small to support multiple thriving communities that have 100% overlap. So I'm hoping to see people naturally self-organize into a single main F1 community and as I see this one with better governance and more activity... it's the one I'm trying to help grow through my contributions.
Niche subs with partial overlap I definitely support though. Happy to have a separate formuladank, and I'd happily join
/c/McLarenMemesor/c/LandoSocialsto get more on their niche. But for raceday discussion and my main source of news on the sport, I'm hoping people choose to join into a bigger community rather than have a bunch of under baked vanity communities that each lack the critical-mass to self-sustain.Thanks for making the effort to coordinate this and post your experience. It makes me feel more confident sticking with this community
It seems to have more people commenting though. At least a lot of different profiles.
Yeah, racethread wasn't really active yet so it's unfortunate the communities are split on that front