Blaze

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Feel free to post something else!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Indeed, but the issue is when one third of the population is there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I know, but this question is asked in the specific context where posters are mostly alone on a community for several weeks / months, where the LW equivalent has much more potential.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks for sharing your experience. I see your posts every day, impressive

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's the Reddit community, juste block it if you don't want to see it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Indeed, I use it from time to time, but from my experience, it seems like LW users tend to stay on their local feed, increasing the visibility of their local communities compared to ones from other instance

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Interesting, I never noticed, guess I'll have to reinstall Thunder.

On browser, there is lemmyverse.link, but

  • if the site goes down, all your links are now dead
  • having to select the instance people want to see the link would probably be annoying to most users

I am not sure how apps can do it better than the web UI, but I had a quick look on the Github and that issue is still open: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987

 
[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (4 children)

moviesandtv exist, but don't really allow people to discuss movies and shows, it's mostly about news.

I suggested at the time to just have a pinned post like "what have you been watching", but got banned by the mod for "backseat moderation" (see below: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/8381687)

The other issue is that as Lemmy posts don't have unique URLs that can be used by every instance, you can't just have a megathread with links to discussion threads, as that would work only for one instance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Any ideas for how to encourage mod communication?

I would just DM the other mods. Worked quite well for me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

To be completely correct you will have to create a new account, but you can export and import your subscriptions and block lists from the new account to the new one in a few clicks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Now you understand 😄

They have a strange issue with their frontend, the instance is still running, and can be accessed using other front ends, but as you can see, not the best experience for a new joiner

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Definitely, but I guess the amount of sysadmins wanting to operate a lemmy instance is limited. Add to that the CSAM and other nasty stuff that happened at the beginning, and only a few people would be okay to manage their own instance.

Also, even a topic-focused instance would suffer from the lack of population. How many interesting topic can you find for a population of 50k? That can't be too precise, because you are talking to a very small population. Well, I guess that's why db0 and slrpnk are doing well, piracy and solarpunk are popular among Lemmy users (as well as whatever the political stance of lemmy.ml is)

 

I'm not gonna lie, sometimes it feels a bit lonely. I try to post on a few generic communities

Sometimes I can be the only poster for a few weeks. Makes me requestion the relevance of posting at all. I started posting to [email protected] recently just because at least my posts are widely seen, and other people post there as well.

 
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Small post to ping a few people who might have interesting insight on the questions discussed in this community.

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Probably a very polarizing question.

On the one hand, having most of the users and communities on LW causes technical issues (see this post), and also gives the LW staff too much power over Lemmy as a whole.

On the other hand, with 18k MAU on LW out of 47k (https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/), every community listed there has a much higher chance of visibility compared to an alternative hosted on another instance

History of LW controversial decisions

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[SEC] The Bat by Lubeee (live.staticflickr.com)
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Jackie Chan stun (files.catbox.moe)
 

When you look at https://beehaw.org/communities, you can see that there are only a few communities, but they are diverse enough to cover most of the topics you would have to discuss on the Internet.

I sometimes think that could be a model we could try to replicate across several instances:

It would allow to aggregate people around a few core communities and avoid dispersion and fragmentation. Of course, it would need some agreements in the community, and some people would probably want to keep their community as "the main one" opposed to the other, but that could still be valuable.

What do you think?

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