The !feminism@beehaw.org community has long since become the largest Lemmy community. In acknowledgement of that, I have decided in consultation with @Gaywallet@beehaw.org to lock this community and redirect.
Personally, I am male and only took on the mod post to make sure Lemmy had a feminism community in the early days of Lemmy, so I'm happy to cede the title to a more vibrant community. If someone wishes to attempt to revive the lemmy.ml community, please get in contact.
Edit: In response to feedback, see:
8 Comments
j4k3@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y
Beehaw defederates too much though. ML is like the central hub. I like Beehaw a lot, and have an account there, but it lacks the broader user base of Lemmy as a whole because of the lack of federation. They need to open to the other major instances IMO. They are great people, and I wish we could all connect freely again. Lemmy as a whole is not much larger than it was when they defederated with dot world. I haven't been over there in like 6 months, but I miss it.
Eldritch@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
I keep forgetting beehaw is a thing. I don't see anything from them anymore since they defederated. If the community is regularly griefed and brigaded by misogynists. Something I have really no clue about I'm not a regular visitor. I just saw this trending. So correct me if I'm wrong. Moving to some place like beehaw could possibly make sense. It's a much more isolated safe space environment. But honestly everyone should be feminist. There's no good reason not to be. Unless you're ignorant of what it is. And it would be a shame to see less advocacy for it on General instances.
pingveno@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y
You have a good point, there is a downside given how much beehaw defederates common instances. I am open to either:
Other suggestions are welcome, of course.
transientpunk@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 2y
This is not a good move. Beehaw defederates too much to lose this community to that instance.
KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
I mean if we are talking raw sub count !feminism@lemmy.world is the biggest, technically 2nd after !femi@szmer.info but they are Polish.
pingveno@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
Just in terms of subs, !feminism@beehaw.org has 1.8k subscribers, !feminism@lemmy.world has 119. Maybe you're not seeing something because of beehaw defederating with lemmy.world?
KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Must be, I only see 109. That's interesting, it's not the kind of thing I would have expected to be impacted by defederation. It should just be an outgoing statistic. Though now that I'm looking more closely and comparing to in a browser, it looks like the disconnect has been more thorough than I thought in a few ways.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
Just a gentle reminder that you don't have final say in that.
The folks that run the instance do. Afaik, they don't usually interfere with such things, but a dead C/ is likely to eventually get their attention in one way or another. Might want to drop them a message and see what they say before making any major decisions about what to do with this C/, regardless of what else happens.
Also, beehaw isn't really lemmy. They dabble in it. You'd very much want to redirect elsewhere in terms of consolidating communities (which isn't actually a great thing tbh).