Barbarian

@Barbarian@lemmy.ml

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Barbarian,

You can disable the creation of new communities. If I understand what you want to do correctly (host users but not content), just make an instance, disable community creation, and put a stickied post linking the community finder and explaining that you should add using the full URL of the community

Barbarian,

Simple: subscribe to both. Ever seen how many /r/trueX subreddits there are (where X is any popular subreddit)? That's basically what's going on here.

Barbarian,

Users are likely going to see this as it's the "official" Lemmy instance when trying to join for the first time.

Any admins of instances that are accepting people, give your best elevator pitch!

Barbarian, (edited )

Nope. You can subscribe/post/comment on any community on any instance. There is one small seam though: if you're the first person to subscribe from your instance, you need to put in the full URL of the community (https://lemmy.ml/c/gaming, for example) to pull it into your instance.

After that, everybody on the same instance as you will see it when searching for communities just like it was local.

EDIT: Oh, forgot to mention: make sure the search is set to "All", not "Communities" when you do this.

Barbarian,

That would go against the concept in a pretty big way. The entire idea of federation is that each instance owner has control over their own instance, and people should (once they get a handle on how things work) move to an instance where they like the rules and admins.

If users of an instance start brigading around the fediverse and being assholes, and the admins of that instance refuse to take action, other instances can choose to block that instance as a whole (defederation) as a last resort. A user getting dropped into an instance like that, full of assholes and isolated from the rest of the network, would be way worse than just some initial confusion.

Also, should mention that the devs have been very vocal that they want to design the system in such a way that they can't control it, but each admin & user has full autonomy rather than centralised control.

Reddit has permanently suspended my account for supporting Lemmy.

I have been supporting Lemmy recently a lot and made posts about Lemmy that got big reach. Today, sadly the reddit account through which, I moderated a lot of subs and spent time on, comes to an end. The reason was because I spammed according to reddit, but the reality is that they have censored me because I was hurting Reddit....

Barbarian,

Unfortunately, flairs aren't implemented yet. It's in the GitHub issues, but considering Lemmy just grew 12-fold overnight, they're obviously focusing on optimization :))

Barbarian,

Maybe Lemmy/Kbin/both could implement a system with upvotes working as in Lemmy, but also the option to boost a post or comment? I honestly think that'd be the best of both worlds.

Instead of just upvotes/downvotes, it'd be upvotes/downvotes/boosts

Barbarian,

That bar is going to be way more vertical tomorrow. The community finder is reporting 2 communities breaking 7k+ users.

Barbarian,

Completely agree. I'll be ecstatic if Lemmy hits the point where it's self-sustaining. It doesn't need to attract millions, but it needs enough active engaged users to post and comment so that there's enough interesting shit here

Following remote communities is hard.

It's easy to discover communities on my instance via the dedicated page in the hamburger menu. But let's say I want to follow a community on another instance, such as !lemmy . I might have found its name mentioned in a post or comment. When I click on the provided link, I'm thrown on that instances web page, from which I of...

Barbarian,

If you're the first person to subscribe to a community from your server, what you need to do is go to the community search, switch from "Communities" to "All", then paste in the full URL (https://lemmy.ml/c/worldbuilding)

I know it's not great, but keep in mind that Lemmy just increased their userbase by 12-fold overnight and it's a 2-man dev team. This isn't some glossy corporate product, and there will be teething issues.

The time to streamline Lemmy onboaring is now. Let's do it like mastodon did. (blog.joinmastodon.org)

I've seen lots of discussion on reddit of users trying to get others to join Lemmy and the prevailing reply is that it is too difficult to navigate and comprehend. Having to answer multiple questions and wait for manual verification is combersome and is limiting growth at a time when nothing should be standing in Lemmy's way....

Barbarian,

Lemme try my best in order:

  1. The admins. The people who run the server the community is hosted on.
  2. Ideally, yes. But each instance gets to decide who they ban. If there's an AngryNazi.fuckyou instance, each other instance can decide they don't want to talk to them or see their communities. Don't want your instance to get banned on another instance? Control your users.
  3. I guess? If your a user of AngryNazi.fuckyou and that instance gets banned in a lot of instances, you will need to make a new account in a less tainted instance.
  4. Unlimited (depending on hardware power Vs users, of course)
Barbarian,

To answer the question, communities are server specific. There are 2 separate gaming communities on lemmy.ml and beehaw.org that I know of, and probably more by now.

About needing better documentation, I could not agree more! It's very understandable considering that just 3 days ago this was a place with 1k users at peak and 2 devs plugging away at improving the framework. This is an open source project, so be the change you want to see (not directed specifically at you, that's for everyone). We can make this whatever we want, but people need to put in work. Been trying to answer as many questions as I can reasonably answer for a few hours now :)

Barbarian,

No, because being on a different server does not impede you in the slightest from subbing, posting and commenting in the more popular one. Think of it as the difference between /r/gaming and /r/truegaming. Same subject, different communities.

Barbarian,

Yeah man, I'm in the same boat on feeling excited for the possibilities here. I'm tired as shit after a hard weekend, and I'm still trying to answer as many basic questions that are within my knowledge as possible :))

On the confusion part, yeah, there will be some adjustment for everyone (thankfully I had a 3-day head start). Just like people know that support@gmail.com and support@totallygmailtrustmebro.com are 2 different servers, people are gonna need to learn to look at which server a community is on

Barbarian,

Yup. The entire ecosystem is experiencing the Reddit hug of death. Server maintainers are trying to upgrade their hardware as fast as possible and the devs are trying to optimize the code as fast as humanly possible.

I joined the same day as the APIocalypse happened, and this is a wild ride to watch.

Barbarian,

I think a lot more play the Steam one, as it looks better

Barbarian,

Any user could just put in the full URL of your community to subscribe like I did, but this is a tumultuous time. Just trying to make things as easy as possible for the torrent of new users coming in :)

Barbarian,

I upvoted and chuckled, but please use Imgur or similar links while the entire ecosystem is being hit by the Reddit hug of death :)

Barbarian,

Sorry, I don't know. Hopefully you'll get an answer from somebody more knowledgeable than me

Barbarian,

Arrr me matey! I can't walk the plank, me wings'll get in the way!

Barbarian,

Subscribed to pull your community into lemmy.ml to help in discovery. Should show up if anybody searches for RC Cars there now

Barbarian,

I think this might be what you're looking for.

Barbarian,

I'm a massive fan of Paradox Interactive, and play almost all their stuff. Crusader Kings 3, Victoria 3, Hearts of Iron 4 and Stellaris (in that order).

Dreamscarred Press Psionics (Pathfinder 1e)

Been on a binge of Pathfinder 1e 3rd party content after finishing up writing the current chapter of my campaign. What are your opinions of Dreamscarred Press' Psionics? Comments online seem to universally love it, and I think im starting to as well. Any personal experience with the ruleset?

Barbarian,

I've never played PF1, I'm interested in giving PF2 a shot much later this year though. Slightly related question: how hard is it to integrate PF1 content to PF2?

Barbarian,

You could always make one. Would be very appropriate to make a NZ instance and advertise it. I'm sure you're not the only Kiwi around.

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