Definitely !longevity@mander.xyz and (ironically) !cryonics@lemmy.world. This is literally a matter of life and death!

Also for the language !esperanto@sopuli.xyz and my home country !slovakia@sopuli.xyz, but revival there is already kind of happening.

Actually, the “good” Windows was Windows 9, that was never released. So it goes bad 8, godd but non-existent 9, bad 10. Than break of the cycle and bad again - 11.

I have never felt metric system so heavy 🤣

Maybe trying 5 kilograms instead of 5 pounds 😁

Context dependent…

Perverse incentives combined with underskilled management 😐

Nice thing would be to have a structured way to clearly present differences between communities of same name. Eg. possibility to link (in machine readable way) in sidebar to other communities and mark them as pure duplicates, or state the actual difference. This information could show also in search and crosspoting dialog.

Technically yes. The problem would be how to decide which community put in spotlight and which in grey (or any other meaningful distinction). Would it be automatic (if yes, how to decide the algorithm), or manual (if yes, how to decide how to left them). These things can be discussed out and solved, but we should be aware that these questions are here.

And it would work only for real duplicates of communities, not healthy separated communities based on actual, conscious and cherished differences.

In fact, there is a problem of asymmetry of difficulty. It is much easier to start a new community, that dealing with existence of several separated communities. Especially as social solutions (eg in case that the communities are really about the same thing in the same way, asking all members to switch, so for newcomers it is easy to know which one is active and maintained).

Technically, I agree.

Practically, I myself have experienced several fragmented communities about the same topic with similar ethos. This was not a healthy separation based on different norms. It was simple, ineffective fragmentation. Or, at least the ethos and norms differences wasn’t clear.

I don’t know with whom you interact in Mastodon, but this in definitely not my experience there.

Simply enjoying the life ☺️ I could do it for decades, even centuries. But there are still people who are wondering what they would do is they could live several decades longer in great health 🤔