I like that the admins have decided on quality over quantity when it comes to communities. For example, there is only one gaming community instead of breaking everyone into several smaller subsets. It increases interaction and exposes you to other subtopics that might spark your interest.
I hope moving forward they continue with this approach!
In general the owners of beehaw are taking this whole lemmy thing much more seriously, and I appreciate it.
couldn’t agree more, been absolutely blown away by transparency and commitment of values here. It’s been an amazing change to even have viability into the issues and integrity with actions.
Yup, other instances feel much more disorganized. It’s hard to find communities.
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I really love it, beehaw’s approach is to make a proper community rather than just a shotgun approach of a “Reddit replacement”
So this instance can really be it’s own self contained community - yes you can subscribe to other instances etc but this is “home” and has well thought out communities to let people chat about what they care about without needing a million super specialised (and inevitably empty) communities.
Beehaw isn’t a “reddit replacement” at all imo. It’s its own social media altogether! :)
Yep totally agree. You can argue that lemmy or Kbin in general is (or could be) but beehaw is it’s own thing which I greatly appreciate
Yup. Too specialized and niche = sad and alone.
It’s like walking into a party and announcing “I will only be friends with left-handed dental hygienists who are over 5 foot 8 and like sushi!” vs “Hello, everyone!”
<glances sadly at the ukulele community on Lemmy.ml>
Say, do you have an interest in ukulele, perchance? Maybe? Even slight? Sigh…
Yes I agree. You need to control community count relative to active user count. Besides special stuff you can look at a community on another federated instance.
Agreed. I’m enjoying seeing a front page filled with discussions on various topics rather than low effort memes copied across countless identical communities.
Literally one of the reasons why I decided to join this instance. I think other servers should take a similar approach.
I think it’s a really good move. Keep everyone together while we’re smaller, and then as one or two games start to dominate the feed (Fortnite or LoL or something) they can split those communities out so they can explore their niche game needs without annoying the rest of the users, and just keep doing that indefinitely.
It’s fine for now. But I very much would prefer a general gaming community for major topics that anybody familiar or not with games can discuss, but also will need more specific communities for discussing:
PCGaming (including what components are a steal or required theses days, games that are only on Pc or to be ported,etc)
SteamDeck (just coming out last year it has daily information that needs to be passed around to users) l
TableTopgames (convention talk, deals, reissues of old games making comebacks, what games for party sizes, best snacks, etc).
And many more communities that aren’t just for me.
All of these communities end up getting lost in a larger group like Gaming. Cross posting is not a symptom of having too many communities. It is a symptom of moderating gone wrong and (for reddits case) karma farming.
I assume tha different people with a gaming channel or magazine will start their own specific niche gaming Instances. Without a single company in charge there’s more reasons for other parties to have their own instance.
