As the lemmygrad community was heavily in agreement of merging our many (~10) “Shit X Say” communities into one, we are moving forward with that.
But here I’m proposing the last call to make your voice heard before we start deleting stuff.
Our proposition is to have 2 communities :
- Keep ShitLiberalsSay for all things from reactionaries and non-communists, because it’s a big and active community
- Create a new ShitUltrasSay community for all things from “leftists”, e.g. MLMs, anarchists, trots, patsocs, ultras, leftcoms…
The merger will look like this (again still a proposition):
- In a first step, a grace period of several days is allowed so that you can save content from all the deleted communities. We’ll also announce which communities will be merged where.
- In a second step, we will delete the superfluous communities. This means all their content and comments will be deleted from the front end, but still accessible via direct link.
- In a third step, we have to assign the new ShitUltrasSay community (not yet created) to someone. I’m not entirely sure about how to solve that yet. If all the current mods of Shit X Say community want to pitch in and decide between themselves if they want to mod together or something.
- After that, we will clarify in the main sidebar that everything should be posted in those two communities and we will delete all new communities that bear the Shit X Say label that can fit into one of the two existing communities.
All inputs welcome of course.
As mentioned before I am okay with it!
A point worth noting is that deleting a community hides the posts, they are still accessible with the direct link or if the community is ever undeleted. Assuming you mean just the remove button. If you issue a backend command and actually delete from the database then obviously they’re permanently deleted.
Personally, I recommend just shelving the communities until Lemmy has a proper archive community option, that way the posts can be brought back as readonly later since a lot of good discussions went on in those threads that would be a shame to permanently lose.
Ultimately we are going to move everything to !shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml and !shitultrassay@lemmygrad.ml, and will want SLS to be turned mod-only… this is what most of the admin team wants and most users seem to lean this way too.
SLS Will not be deleted because there’s 1.5k posts, as for the other communities, most of them have very few posts (like just 3 or 5) so there wouldn’t be much loss. Most community owners have already backed up their URLs in the way you mentioned (just clicked the remove button), we actually went from like 12 communities to just 4 already haha.
I think we can’t delete communities from the backend because it could break federation.
Got it!
Glad you agreed so readily, I was of the opinion we could keep SLS but yeah, it would probably get confusing for new users to have the URL say SLS but the name say SRS
No worries. Just want this instance to run smoothly tbh