Active User Growth
!textsfromsolarpunk@slrpnk.net, textsfromsolarpunk, up 39.4% to 1899, (18 posts)
!latex@programming.dev, LaTeX, up 25.8% to 58, (6 posts)
!meow_irl@sopuli.xyz, MEOW_IRL, up 22.4% to 1935, (287 posts)
!gardening@midwest.social, Gardening, up 18.6% to 103, (26 posts)
!beyond@lemm.ee, Beyond app, up 18.3% to 34, (10 posts)
!mushroomgrowers@lemmy.ca, A place to call home for folks who grow mushrooms!, up 14.4% to 21, (11 posts)
!ubuntu@lemmy.ml, Ubuntu (Linux), up 14.3% to 30, (56 posts)
!niedersachsen@feddit.de, Niedersachsen, up 14.2% to 26, (7 posts)
!imaginarydragons@leminal.space, Imaginary Dragons, up 14.2% to 74, (34 posts)
!cptsd@lemmy.ml, CPTSD, up 14.2% to 19, (31 posts)
!clevercomebacks@feddit.uk, Clever Comebacks, up 14.2% to 349, (27 posts)
!cleveland@midwest.social, Cleveland, up 14.2% to 48, (82 posts)
!atlanta@lemmy.ml, Atlanta, GA, up 14.2% to 35, (5 posts)
!punk_rock@lemmy.ca, Punk Rock, up 13.5% to 86, (272 posts)
!learnchinese@lemmygrad.ml, Learn the Chinese language, up 13.5% to 52, (39 posts)
!piracy@lemmy.ml, Piracy, up 13.2% to 709, (466 posts)
!lunar_punk@slrpnk.net, Lunarpunk, up 13.2% to 257, (21 posts)
!badmovies@lemmy.world, Bad Movies, up 10.0% to 21, (42 posts)
!ttrpg_dice@ttrpg.network, Gaming Dice, up 9.1% to 66, (20 posts)
!alwaysthesamemap@lemmygrad.ml, Always the Same Map, up 8.6% to 48, (90 posts)
!softwaregore@lemmy.world, Software Gore, up 8.3% to 198, (166 posts)
!adventuregames@lemm.ee, Adventure / Point-and-Click / Narrative Games, up 8.2% to 101, (39 posts)
!letstalkaboutgames@feddit.uk, Let's Talk About Games, up 7.7% to 305, (18 posts)
!wissenschaft@feddit.de, Wissenschaft, up 7.3% to 121, (163 posts)
!liverpool@feddit.uk, Liverpool, up 7.1% to 12, (26 posts)
!paleofauna@lemmygrad.ml, Paleofauna, up 7.0% to 20, (49 posts)
!indiana@midwest.social, Indiana, up 6.8% to 585, (59 posts)
!monkeyuser@programming.dev, MonkeyUser, up 5.7% to 1032, (26 posts)
!suomi@lemmygrad.ml, Suomi / Finland, up 4.7% to 10, (4 posts)
!mlemapp@lemmy.ml, Mlem for Lemmy, up 4.1% to 371, (296 posts)
!learnjapanese@lemmy.ml, Learn Japanese, up 4.0% to 46, (15 posts)
!homevideo@feddit.uk, Home Video (VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, 4k), up 3.8% to 340, (199 posts)
!unpopularopinion@lemmy.world, Unpopular Opinion, up 3.3% to 1025, (228 posts)
!reddit@lemmy.world, Reddit, up 3.3% to 339, (506 posts)
!deus_ex@lemmy.ml, Deus Ex, up 3.0% to 822, (37 posts)
!thefifthworld@lemm.ee, The fifth world., up 2.8% to 15, (21 posts)
!neurodiversity@lemmygrad.ml, Neurodiversity, up 2.5% to 14, (25 posts)
!music@lemmy.ml, Music, up 2.4% to 215, (1203 posts)
!plan9@lemmy.sdf.org, Plan9, up 2.2% to 12, (11 posts)
!meta@lemmygrad.ml, meta, up 2.1% to 30, (49 posts)
!melbournetrains@aussie.zone, Melbourne Trains, up 2.0% to 112, (95 posts)
!tucsonpolitics@tucson.social, Tucson Politics, up 1.6% to 276, (906 posts)
!diy@beehaw.org, Do It Yourself, up 1.5% to 22, (129 posts)
!balconygardening@slrpnk.net, Balcony Gardening, up 1.5% to 84, (25 posts)
Subscriber Growth
!nova@dmv.social, NoVA / Northern Virginia, up 0.2% to 441, (121 posts, 2 recent)
!learningrustandlemmy@lemmy.ml, Learning Rust and Lemmy, up 30.1% to 195, (18 posts, 10 recent)
!trans@lemmy.blahaj.zone, Trans, up 25.6% to 124, (34 posts, 31 recent)
!actual_discussion@lemmy.ca, Actual Discussion, up 1.2% to 104, (12 posts, 8 recent)
!grasweeti@slrpnk.net, Sweet Graffiti and other acts of wholesome vandalism, up 0.8% to 82, (24 posts, 4 recent)
!independentfilms@feddit.de, Independent Movies, Series and Documentaries, up 0.7% to 26, (9 posts, 3 recent)
!trams_trolleys_streetcars@lemmy.blahaj.zone, Trams, Trolleys and Streetcars, up 0.4% to 23, (8 posts, 3 recent)
!tenforward@lemmy.world, TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name, up 0.4% to 1692, (565 posts, 106 recent)
!internetofshit@suppo.fi, Internet of Shit, up 0.4% to 143, (6 posts, 2 recent)
!hellointernet@feddit.uk, Hello Internet, up 0.3% to 43, (13 posts, 4 recent)
!weirdnews@real.lemmy.fan, Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm', up 0.2% to 103, (37 posts, 17 recent)
!askmenover30@lemm.ee, askmenover30, up 0.2% to 287, (18 posts, 8 recent)
!harrypotter@literature.cafe, Harry Potter, up 0.1% to 145, (35 posts, 5 recent)
(Results are averaged over the past 7 days)
It's up to debate, but to me if the mod isn't active for the community (e.g. posting regularly), they should ask for someone else to take up that role. And if nobody wants the role, and there is another active community to redirect too, it could be nice to lock the inactive community down and redirect to the active one.
I mod a few inactive communities (such as !harrypotter@literature.cafe ). If someone came to me and said "hey, we've been trying to get our own HP community active, you already have some people on yours, would you mind locking yours down as you don't seem to actively mod it, and redirect to ours?" I would definitely do it.
They are not, but at the same time the LW rules still allow them to namesquat that community.
For the instance, as long as you take the big ones (LW, lemm.ee, SJW, dbzer0, lemmy.ca, etc.), your experience will indeed be the same. To know which community to post too, this is a different story, and I've seen a lot of people telling me "I stay on Reddit because when I when to post about a topic, there's a clear community where to. On Lemmy, there are two or three active communities competing for the same topic, and it's just confusing". Of course we should keep different communities for different folks (no one would consider merging lemmy.ml communities with LW's), but we can also reduce the confusion for a few core topics that can help new joiners to get settled
They are not, but as I said earlier, LW is so large than they have to be extra cautious with their updates. If they would be 20% of the total Lemmy population, and 30 of the top 100 communities compared to now, they would probably be more at ease with "me can mess up a bit, it's okay". Having them as a cornerstone of the whole platform puts them constantly under the spotlight.