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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/McLarenMemes
or/c/LandoSocials
to 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.