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[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To my mind, the ideal would be that if you, as the person who wants to share some 'open-source' news, chose one community that you think is 'best' (based on what instance it's on, if the mods are real people and are active, participation levels, whatever you think really). And we, as subscribers, would do the same. This way, the 'good' communities would thrive, and the 'bad' ones would wither away. What happens at the minute, is that there's 8 communities for open source, and there'll always will be, because they aren't in competition with one another.

(this is mostly just a general point about cross-posting behaviour, it's not meant as a dig at you personally).

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

problem is I have no idea which of these communities is "best", I do not pay enough attention to things going on behind the scenes to have any knowledge of that.

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

problem is I have no idea which of these communities is "best"

Its a bit basic but so far I've just gone with the largest population. Usually I'm just after the most activity and that generally scales with population. It keeps things relatively simple.

[–] Quail4789@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

this'll just mean whatever's in .world or .ml will eat up all the other communities. Biggest doesn't mean best.

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There is some lemmy.world sure but also:

  • lemmy.ml
  • sh.itjust.works
  • programming.dev
  • lemmy.dbzer0.com
  • programming.dev
  • lemm.ee
  • lemmy.kde.social

If a topic suits the philosophy of its lemmy instance its more likely to attract a healthy population. Then when I'm looking for a community on a topic it doesn't really matter which instance that community is on.