Problem is that a community as broad as a gaming one is bound to be subscribed my many user on many instances. Switching it to another one will only move the problem elsewhere, not fix it.

Is it? I always feel like for every topic the schema is

• a community on LW
• a community on another instance that exists mostly to avoid centralization on LW

Examples

• !android@lemdro.id vs !android@lemmy.world
• !games@sh.itjust.works vs games@lemmy.world
• !movies@lemm.ee vs !movies@lemmy.world

That does not automatically mean that the LW community is “too full”, just that some users want to use other instances as well

There was a while ago the example of !mapporn@lemmy.world vs !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

As the sopuli community was more active, the LW admins closed down the LW one to focus all the activity on a single community

The idea would be to get all gaming related community on “games.lemmy.world”, and getting most games related communities to switch there, so external instances can subscribe to that specific instance without receiving all the other updates from other communities.

Seems very close to just hosting communities on other instances? From your message, I feel like people on LW want to keep communities on “LW instances”, I’m wondering why. Is it due to distrust with other instances? Lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works and lemmy.zip have been around as long as LW, have transparent financial reports and high availability times.

Hello,

Thank you for commenting!

I agree with you with points 1 and 2.

Content is hard to find, and I talked about this many times, leaving LW communities means splitting the userbase even more and wondering where the content is.

Agreed on discoverability, that’s why we now have those threads, and that !newcommunities@lemmy.world is featured at the top of LW’s home page.

On the other hand, sometimes it’s a bit frustrating. !movies@lemm.ee is now more active and with more content than the LW version, but some people still keep posting to it, while we offered moderation position to anyone who would like to (looking at you, !moviesandtv@lemm.ee ), and Lemm.ee is a well established instance with a neutral domain name.

I moved !casualconversation@lemmy.world to !casualconversation@lemm.ee , left a pinned post there so that people could find the new community, it’s more active now that it used to be on LW.

Anyway, that’s it for me, again thank you for your comment.

Additional small comment: just had a look at the community, well done for the AMA with the game developer!

To be honest, this community seems nice and we’ll run, my comment was more targeting at LW communities almost “name squatting”, which is definitely not the case here, well done!