Yesterday I read the excellent article by Cory Doctorow: Let the Platforms Burn and this particular anecdote The thing is, network effects are a double-edged sword. People join a service to be with the people they care about. But when the people they care about start to leave, everyone rushes for the exits. Here’s danah [...]
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@db0 @pizza_rolls Tell me, which communities are you still missing?
Guitars, guitarpedals, various gardening communities, various construction communities, homeowning communities, diy stuff, worldjerking.
A lot of the non tech savvy communities have yet to move. It’s the same reason facebook groups are good for that sort of thing
Well. we need to start from somewhere, on kbin.social there is:
@gardening@kbin.socialand@diy@kbin.social. Both should become more active. Just follow and post something I would say :)On Lemmy you have
@gardening@lemmy.worldand@diy@beehaw.orgAnd what about:
@permaculture@lemmy.worldor@homeimprovement@lemmy.worldI’m already apart of all of those communities, but they tiny compared to reddit’s. A community is the people, not the url
well… The community is as strong as it’s people. I’m not going back to Reddit. That is for sure.