I haven't played with kbin.social yet. Most of my interactions with them have been through Lemmy (and noticing that users/communities are actually from kbin.soc

I haven't played with kbin.social yet. Most of my interactions with them have been through Lemmy (and noticing that users/communities are actually from kbin.social) I feel like Beehaw.org is quite pragmatic. By cutting off the #RedditBlackout users, they've kept their community feel and the focus on community building. I dunno if I want to be part of Beehaw.org, but I support their decisions and can see the long-term benefits of their way of thinking. Lemmy.world obviously is trying to capture #RedditBlackout traffic, and that's fine too. This has its downsides, the bulk of which is that 90%ish of the discussion on Lemmy.world is all around Reddit and/or Lemmy, as opposed to more pragmatic issues. -------- The happy medium I've found is to look for specific communities, no matter where they are. https://programming.dev/c/programming https://programming.dev/c/programming is small but looks like it has the right mindset. https://mtgzone.com/c/mtg https://mtgzone.com/c/mtg also looks to have the right mindset, by creating a Magic-the-gathering focused group. The issue in the near term is human-coordination. People don't know which !communities or servers host the discussions they want yet. That's fine, people will self-organize one way or the other. EDIT: Of course, https://Lemmy.world https://Lemmy.world can work. But most users are obviously here for lower-effort experimentation rather than community building. The https://lemmy.world/c/android https://lemmy.world/c/android community seems to be taking off though and is on the right track.