I’m mostly thinking about LW communities where nobody posts but which have active counterparts on other instances

  • spaduf@slrpnk.net
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    7 months ago

    My opinion is yes. That existing subscriber base goes a long way towards jumpstarting an active community

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    7 months ago

    I like this because people showing up to those communities might think that topic doesn’t have activity on Lemmy, when it actually does. Assuming the moderators are still active, the abandoned community can stay open to new posts (in case there are issues with the active counterpart).

    I personally subscribe to both, so that I can get all the posts, but I post to the community I consider the ‘main’ community