on top of that, there redundant communities that are unnecessary even in the same instances. For example there is the android@ and the askandroid@. The first one has a decent amount of subscribers while the second one has a single digit number. I wanted to ask a question, I posted in the first one since it would make sense to reach more people. The post got deleted and I was told to go to the other one. In the first one they were posting only news articles.

This is ridiculous. Splitting communities in such way was the result of the huge traffic that such communities had in the past in other platforms. This makes sense only when the traffic is so huge that it is practically chaotic to navigate and moderate between news/articles and support questions. When both communities combined have 50 subscribers, such split only harms the platform and the users.

Everyone wanted to migrate by bringing an identical environment to what they had used to. However this should be adaptable to the current situation instead of directly copying it.

[–] GTG3000@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

I think some people expected their entire community to get up and move.

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The post got deleted and I was told to go to the other one. In the first one they were posting only news articles

Ill call it garbage reddit-brain moderation. The reason for an /ask~ comm is cause your main comm is flooded with repeated questions that would stifle discussion. It's also not a good solution to that problem, not too mention they don't have enough users to be having that problem.

The way you form a community is to discuss the same things over and over until a hivemind develops, it's a good thing to have a group consensus, not that individuals can't disagree. Now the crappy moderation is gonna cultivate a crappy subreddit vibe instead of something better.