I’ve had this sitting in my inbox all day because to be quite frank with you, I found it troubling.

I can’t speak for everyone, but when I joined Lemmy, it was because I believed in decentralization amongst other things. So when you speak of fragmentation, my feelings are essentially akin to bafflement.

I’m just one person and am running a miniscule community to discuss a topic. I highly doubt that the members that have subscribed are going to stop posting in WORLD or ML.

You’re basically suggesting that the first group has some sort of right over smaller groups and that’s fundamentally untrue.

When willya started his Sex Memes community, NSFW memes was already up and running and has thousands of subscribers, however because of the way he runs his community, his is presently the most successful one. That doesn’t fragment the meme community, it strengthens it.

I don’t subscribe to the idea that the first or the biggest is the best. There’s plenty of, let’s call them legacy groups, on Lemmy, where the moderators have no presence whatsoever and what, everyone should use their groups? No.

The best groups, with the best moderators and the best admins will rise to the top and they absolutely should, because they’re the best. Not because of where they’re hosted or when they were started. It’s why I’m so vehemently against automatically merging groups, because let’s be honest, some moderators are dick heads and don’t deserve to bathe in the success of groups that keep their users safe and engaged.

Anyway, thanks for the suggestion, but no thanks. Though I promise that my tiddly community shan’t steal perceivable engagement from WORLD any time soon. And if it does, it’ll be great for the Fediverse as WORLD is, comparatively speaking, too big already anyway.