Lemmy

Fragmentation exists and depends on how many users are interested to discuss a topic.

Of course tech communities are thriving, they are the common denominators for most of the users on Lemmy.

On the other hand, if we had !football@lemmy.world , and people also posting to !soccer@lemmy.world, splitting the tiny community there is, wouldn't you want everyone to just go to one place to keep it alive, rather than have 50% of low activity on either side?

That's why I'm still posting to some LW communities even though I'm not a fan of having communities there.

There are only so many people interested to talk about active communities, so I create the weekly post to discuss about active communities on !newcommunities@lemmy.world , because it's more important to get visibility for communities than to avoid this community being on lemmy.world.

I could have it on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca too, but that would mean asking everyone to comment twice, and realistically that's not going to happen.

Being able to move away from a community thanks to federation does not mean every community should be duplicated, that's counterproductive.