Search for community_requests@ whatever instance you are on. I believe that is the correct one for lemmy.ml and lemmy.world to make requests to take over a community.
I wonder if people would be interested in a Blue Archive Community on here. It would have to have quite a few rules to not complicate relations with the Instance its hosted on, but it could still work!
See, the issue comes when “plenty to do” ends up with “justifying allowing fascism”, as a glance down any of these threads will show is a common position. “If Biden doesn’t change his position, he DESERVES to lose”; of course, the deaths Trump will cause is irrelevant; minorities must die to punish the old fucks in the DNC. There is an approach on a deontological level that is fucking insane from a utilitarian standpoint, and it’s not something that I feel warrants standing by silently about.
On here, on Lemmy, fucking no one is in favor of Israel, except that one weirdo who got himself banned from 2/3s of the communities on here. Thank the gods. “Genocide bad” is already accepted; what is sometimes missed is “A Trump election implies a significant increase in genocide”, which is why I beat the drum on here. I’ve seen leftists on here (by no means representative of all leftists, not even all Lemmy leftists, I know) say things as repulsive, nonsensical, and varied as:
America deserves genocide anyway for supporting genocide, so it’s okay if Trump wins
Trump winning will spark a left-wing revolution, so everything will be better in the end
Trump actually isn’t any different than Biden, and won’t kill any significantly greater number of people
A personal moral stand is worth the lives of millions of minorities and leftists
As long as the moderates are taught a lesson, it’s worth it
As long as I see those opinions regularly pop up outside of .ml and like instances, I will continue beating the “Vote for Biden you dumb fucks” drum over the “Genocide is BAD you dumb fucks” drum that I would favor when interacting with the general American population.
One of the advantages of a decentralized platform like Lemmy is the ability to create parallel communities on the same topic. “You don’t like how a community is being moderated? Go to another instance and start a new community!” (with or without blackjack and hookers)...
However, I think this is also a double-edged sword. The creation of multiple communities on the same (or similar) topics can also fragment the userbase, leading to very sparsely populated communities.
I’m not intrinsically adverse to multiple communities on the same topic because they can approach a subject from different angles and eventually we’ll have sub-communities (either as a core feature or in the apps). However, they do have to be active and none of the HP ones are. That is the key issue here. An active community tends to draw in more posters as people know which one to post in and they gain momentum. If none are active then no-one knows which to post in.
Looking over the communities (and bearing in mind that federation issues might mean I am not seeing all activity), it seems that no Mod has been active in the last month and some have been MIA for a long time.
So I’d suggest the solution is to get some active Mods in place. It would make sense to focus on the l.w and literature.cafe ones for now.
This might require a but of a change in thinking about communities and Mods - quite a few people seem them as the territory of the Mods and are hands-off (I tend to leave content decisions to Mods) but that can lead to them not being replaced when they have been gone so long it’s clear they aren’t coming back. My take is that the instance isn’t “mine” I am help to run it for the members and that extends to Mods - they are caretakers of the communities not their overlords (the kind of thinking that can lead to abuse). After all, if Lemmy is a success, they could easily outlive the Mods and Admins. So, because of inactivity, we’ve replaced Mod teams on communities like !okmatewanker and !coffee and that has given them a new lease of life.
So sort the Modding out, get the communities active again and they’ll develop their own gravity as people will know where to post. You don’t really need to shut down the smaller communities (although the Admins of those instances could look into it) they’ll just stay parked and inactive.
I suspect that many of these were created during the 2023 Rexxit
Yes, it’s something I’ve seen while going through the feddit.uk communities - there seems to have been a wave of enthusiasm with people starting communities and then posting once or twice (if at all) and then going inactive 8-10 months ago. I suspect there will need to be
This is a good idea I theory so that these small communities gain more activity by being merged into a larger one. But the question is how to actually do it in practice. Many of these small communities are essentially abandoned, with mods that havent posted in months (or never posted at all). The only option is then to have admins of each community instance help with the migration.
Consolidation would defeat the purpose of decentralized fediverse instances. Instead, I would like to see a method for allowing the automation of cross posting between related communities on different instances. There would not be dependency on a single instance; each mod would retain control of their community; and the segmented communities can connect with one another with ease.
One of the features I really miss from the snu site is multireddits. It would be really handy to have a similar feature available in boost that can aggregate posts from multiple communities into a single feed view.
I’m interested in custom buckets of communities so I can build topic views. All, Local and Subbed aren’t granular enough to do that.
It’s probably a feature Lemmy itself should support on the instance but client side feeds would be nice to have until they get around to adding proper server side multis.
Especially on Lemmy as every topic has a bunch of communities on multiple instances - 3DPrinting@lemmy.world, 3D Printing@lemmy.ml, 3D printing@lemm.ee, 3D Printing@kbin.social etc. Would be great to have just one multi that groups all of them together.
Users can now block instances. Similar to community blocks, it means that any posts from communities which are hosted on that instance are hidden. However the block doesn’t affect users from the blocked instance, their posts and comments can still be seen normally in other communities.
I get that you can’t stop people from commenting on your posts but you can still filter it out from the results.
Mastodon is arguably easier to deal with since you’re replying directly to someone, so the user’s server can reject it and be done with it. On Lemmy it really should behave as if you blocked the user: just hide it from view. Simply because if you’re on instance A, blocked instance is B and the community is on C, B has no problem posting to C as it doesn’t know you’ve blocked it on A. But even defederation doesn’t address that either: you can reply to defederated users and they’ll never know for the same reason.
I think on this type of social media, not seeing it is the best you can do regardless.
If you look at the communities tab and sort by new, more communities there have 0 posts than have more than 10 posts. It seems like people are just making communities for the sake of having something to control, without any interest of actually contributing. Often times the communities are opposing, so it’s not as if the mod...
Cyberattacks against water utilities across the country are becoming more frequent and more severe, the Environmental Protection Agency warned Monday as it issued an enforcement alert urging water systems to take immediate actions to protect the nation’s drinking water....
And when the rural communities can’t afford to do the EPA mandated updates, they sell out to a publicly traded, for profit corporation…who raises basic utility fees multiple times over the short span they’ve owned and operated the infrastructure of the rural communities.
I’m not saying you’re wrong in every instance, as what you’ve said holds true a lot of the time. Just not in this very specific, albeit anecdotal, instance.
You can go to an instance that follows your views closer and start blocking instances that post low quality content to you. Lemmy is a protocol, it’s not a single community. So the moderation and post quality is going to be determined by the instance you’re on and the community you’re with.
I know there’s been a few posts about this before, but it’s been a month since the last one and it’s still ongoing. It doesn’t seem that any of the LW admins responded to Zag’s post on their help community, and the last response from lodion/Nath I’m aware of was from 4 months ago when there were outright federation...
It had a few niche communities I would occasionally post to after the Reddit exodus but a couple months later I would post there and get no responses or votes. Going to lemmy.film now gives me an error message. Did they decide to shut it down or combine with another instance similar to FMHY? I am curious if they gave some kind...
I don’t know the specifics of what may have happened with Lemmy.film, so we’ll have to see if someone else may know.
As to what happens to posts to “their” communities, my rough understanding is that with the host server gone, federation either doesn’t occur or maybe attempts to reach the host but simply stops after some number of attempts. Upon failure I think it simply collects the posts on your home server/instance’s copy of the community.
Not sure what would happen if a new instance was spun up of Lemmy.film either from a backup or in general, but I’d imagine there’s some settings/adjustments that may be calibrated to prevent it getting a backlog of posts dumped on it causing it to get bogged down or crash.
As to questions specifically about the Lemmy software, you may try !lemmy_support or !lemmy, think either one would be okay for this.
#devRant has vanished from app stores. Now I wonder how new people will ever make it to the community of funny and loud nerds like this one. The way I discovered it is by searching #DevHumor in Google Images and clicking on the one joke I liked. Despite being website second and mobile first, devRant has found its way to my desktop bookmarks, I quickly became a user just to throw a few snarky jokes back and take part in some interesting discussions. There are lots of #TIL moments to have, too.
Few telling signs show that dR does not feel well: subscriptions stopped functioning and now app is nowhere to be found on Play Store. There are simply periods when servers refuse to accept some LTE connections, which is strange for mobile first platform. Now users will have to resort to third-party app, like #skyRant, to access the platform at finger tips.
This situation got me musing again about an app that could interact with devRant and Fediverse, optionally archiving stuff on the latter.
One can host a server. In fact, some devRant member can make a special instance with its own rules and cool backend things. People can sign up there, on the subject of finding a pack of fun folks and being able to communicate something back. Conveniently enough, the instance itself would accumulate a lot of content relevant to it, which include dev rants and memes. Cultural overlap with other communities is as big as federation, that server has means of regulating.
So, this will work out as a devRant alternative? I'm not so sure, since power is in hands of some individual that will have to also sustain the thing, cover the costs. Yeah, it's not like we can trust devRant to be alive forever by #HexicalLabs paying bills either (not with subscriptions broken, anyway), but all administrative burden is not going away.
Do YOU want to be on such server or do you prefer to trust another? Do others? How much moderation is really needed?
What happens after the end of the second year of hormonal transition, once all the doctors say you've seen everything you're going to see. Why is it that basically everyone sees... well, a heck of a lot more?
This week on #StainedGlassWoman, we're talking about Transition Timelines, and the science--and lack thereof--of later transition!
@Specialist_Being_677 Agreed! And the hard part is that a lot of times, community wisdom and common sense (and this is WAY more than a trans community thing) have turned out to be nothing more than an instance of the correlation/causation fallacy.
It's such a frustrating place to be. We can build knowledge, but it's sooooo fucking slow.
Funny communities and news ones are usually found in generalist instances such as lemmy.world or lemmy.ml but the most interesting ones are on specialised instances.
The best way to discover them is to go directly to the instance and scroll a bit on the local thread or to go to the community page (ex: lemmy.ml/communities).
Then come back to your instance to visit again or follow the communities you liked.
There is geographically or language specialised instances such as :
feddit.uk
feddit.it and most probably
feddit.[your country code]
but a few geographically/language specialised instances were creative with there name such as
aussie.zone
jlai.lu
midwest.social
There is also subject oriented instances for example
mander.xyz. Science oriented
slrpnk.net. Solarpunk oriented
lemmy.dbzer0.com. Allow content about piracy
and !piracy is probably the most follow community on the lemmyverse.
You can find community directly from your instance page or from a browser like :
browse.feddit.de
lemmyverse.net
The browser helps you find community’s names that were never connected to your own instance or specialised instance you didn’t knew about.
When connecting for the first time type the url lemmy.world/c/[community’s name]@[community’s instance], you’ll get an error but after refreshing the page you will have access to the community. But that’s not new-comers friendly as you’ll need another maneuvers to access post published before you connect your instance to the remote community. Still, if you are interested, I can explain you how to do it.
There is also politically oriented instances but some may be blocked by the administrators of your instance. You can check that on lemmy.world/instances.
Finally, if you want to test your options on Lemmy without spamming your favorite communities, you can do that here !testfediverse.
Perhaps after some amount of time having announced themselves over in !newcommunities and !communitypromo, or…I don’t know if there are communities for instances (the fediverse communities, presumably?), but likewise for them?...
How does one go about applying to be a mod for a mod-less community?
Apologies if this isn’t the place to ask.
[News] The Blue Archive TVA is releasing in North America with English subtitles, starting 5/24 (Fri) 0:00 AM (UTC) (x.com)
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"Of course not - that might hurt my accelerationist dreams!" (lemmy.world)
Potential benefits of consolidating communities? (Harry Potter example)
One of the advantages of a decentralized platform like Lemmy is the ability to create parallel communities on the same topic. “You don’t like how a community is being moderated? Go to another instance and start a new community!” (with or without blackjack and hookers)...
IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR LEMMY.WORLD USERS
Hello from across the fediverse!...
[Feature Req] Implement client side multicommunities
One of the features I really miss from the snu site is multireddits. It would be really handy to have a similar feature available in boost that can aggregate posts from multiple communities into a single feed view.
A certain overly sensitive instance deleted my meme so I've blocked it completely. Will it also block their community from interacting with me on other instances?
Max number of communities modded by one person.
If you look at the communities tab and sort by new, more communities there have 0 posts than have more than 10 posts. It seems like people are just making communities for the sake of having something to control, without any interest of actually contributing. Often times the communities are opposing, so it’s not as if the mod...
US says cyberattacks against water supplies are rising, and utilities need to do more to stop them (apnews.com)
Cyberattacks against water utilities across the country are becoming more frequent and more severe, the Environmental Protection Agency warned Monday as it issued an enforcement alert urging water systems to take immediate actions to protect the nation’s drinking water....
FBI Arrests Man For Generating AI Child Sexual Abuse Imagery (www.404media.co)
Are there any updates on the ongoing federation delays with lemmy.world?
I know there’s been a few posts about this before, but it’s been a month since the last one and it’s still ongoing. It doesn’t seem that any of the LW admins responded to Zag’s post on their help community, and the last response from lodion/Nath I’m aware of was from 4 months ago when there were outright federation...
Whatever happened to lemmy.film?
It had a few niche communities I would occasionally post to after the Reddit exodus but a couple months later I would post there and get no responses or votes. Going to lemmy.film now gives me an error message. Did they decide to shut it down or combine with another instance similar to FMHY? I am curious if they gave some kind...
I'm finally moving over to Lemmy! What are your favorite active communities on the platform?
Would it be okay to also use this community to promote developing communities and instances?
Perhaps after some amount of time having announced themselves over in !newcommunities and !communitypromo, or…I don’t know if there are communities for instances (the fediverse communities, presumably?), but likewise for them?...