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Link to Dan Da Dan Episode 2 Discussion (ani.social)

submitted 5 days ago by rikka@ani.social to c/anime@ani.social

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[–] ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The rationale for letting show-specific communities host their own discussion threads is to help introduce those communities to a wider audience in the fediverse. The lemmy and lemmy-compatible userbase is small enough that splitting across threads/communities seemed counter-productive.

I see where you're coming from, but I think this rationale makes more sense for centralized platforms like Reddit, where federation isn't an issue. I wonder how effective it is, seeing as it's very easy to conclude that the community is inactive or dead if you're from another instance and only see (bot)posts without any comments or upvotes. That's what I thought for a while anyway with many of these anime specific communities, like with Delicious in Dungeon. It felt like there was no place to discuss as a result. (Off topic, but these federation complications are also one of the reasons why I don't think decentralized platforms are the be-all-end-all like many seem to think. It's very user-unfriendly) Then again, I suppose it'd be harder to find those communities at all due to the federation stuff without the promotion of the anime community.

All that said, people did basically use this thread last week as an impromptu discussion thread. I am not going to remove comments from these threads (within the rules anyway).

Good to hear. Thanks for the response.