I’m considering closing and redirecting !askmen@lemmy.ca and !askwomen@lemmy.ca. They haven’t seen much activity in months/years. Usually, people just post in the ask/asklemmy communities and indicate which group of people they want answers from.
Here is a draft for the pinned post so far:
There currently isn’t a one to one match for the topic of this community. If you want answers from a specific group (ex. men/women), you could instead start your question with a phrase like “A question for men:”. Here are some alternative communities:
“Ask” communities (for starting a discussion):
For questions that are more specific to your situation:
Group specific communities:
Broader in topic (not necessarily questions):
If you would like to take over this community, please reach out to @admin@lemmy.ca
Do you have any thoughts? Are there other communities that should be included in the list?
If it’s something where dad advice would help I’d go !dadforaminute@lemmy.world Great with DIY, financial, life etc
Thanks! I’ve added it to the draft
The draft looks good!
Thanks! !askmen@lemmy.ca and !askwomen@lemmy.ca have been closed and redirected
Thank you!
There is also fairly active !askbeehaw@beehaw.org but I’m not sure about beehaw’s current federation status with the big instances.
I’ll add it to the list, I’m not sure if I should also add a note about federation or if that will just be more confusing for new users
Good point. You could add something less technical, like in parenthesis: (possibly available) or something.
Then again someone could also have trouble accessing e.g the link to lemmy.ml if their instance puts predefined instance blocks to new accounts like lemmy.zip does.
No mention at all could also be confusing. What about a general: (access to above communities depends on your own instance. Not all of them are necessarily available to your instance) ?
Thanks! I ended up including this sentence:
If you can’t access one of the communities listed below, it may not be available on your instance. You can always check out this guide on how to find communities.
That looks really good! Well summarized
Happy cake day!
Thank you blaze! Late reply as Sopuli was down for anubis update for a bit, but we’re back :)
Happy cake day!
Thank you! Damn time flies… Well here’s to fedi growing!
(shameless plug)(it is also dead)
Have you considered locking it down until we get more users?
can you please elaborate why would that be helpful?
Having an open community without any posts in the last few months gives a potential new joiner the impression that the platform is just empty. Multiply that by the number of communities they encounter which are in a similar stage and they just leave to never come back.
On the other hand, seeing a locked community with “community locked for now, here’s an active alternative” points the potential new joiner to the active community, which shows them that this place indeed has some activity.
ooh… that makes sense. I will lock it down, but where should i direct them to? There was a stupid question community in lemmee i think, but now that is no more, so not sure what should be the best option. maybe normal ask communities, but they do not feel right.
Normal ask communities I would say. You can maybe even reuse this post content
