@ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world

ElectroVagrant

@ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world

Another traveler of the wireways.

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ElectroVagrant,

I'm in sort of a similar boat to you. I'd been keeping an eye on Lemmy in hopes that it might eventually see wider adoption as it became more polished in development. I think prior to the Reddit migration there were maybe about 10 or so servers running it, and of those 10 maybe a little over half had any semblance of a population and activity.

If memory serves some of the original instances were like:

  • Lemmy.ml
  • Lemmygrad.ml
  • Beehaw.org
  • Sopuli.xyz
  • Mander.xyz
  • Midwest.social
  • Lemmy.ca

Of these, I think probably the most populated & active were maybe Lemmy.ml, Lemmygrad.ml, Beehaw, Midwest, and Lemmy.ca. Sopuli & Mander were (& I think may still be) smaller but they were still pretty active and have nice little communities.

Maybe I looked into them a little more closely than you, but I felt even then with their very small populations they had distinct cultures or at least cultural aims (probably most notably Beehaw & Lemmygrad at the time). However, you're right that there wasn't as much activity & content being shared by comparison to other networks just a year or two ago, which wasn't surprising given how few folks were here.

Tbh I wish the Lemmy devs had had more time to polish the software before all this hit, but I'm pleasantly surprised to see folks weathering through its rough edges.

ElectroVagrant,

Hi! What's your go-to snack?

Anyone else turned off by communities lacking a banner and/or icon?

Just a small pet peeve. I know wealth of quality discussions and content is the key to a healthy community, but I find lack of an icon or banner to be a turn-off signaling low effort, especially if the community has been around for more than a week or so. Meh. Just my 2 cents.

ElectroVagrant,

I'm not put off by them personally, but I find that I do tend to overlook or mix up those without any icon to help distinguish them, especially those communities with either the same or similar names.

ElectroVagrant,

This topic is related to different stuff from that. Accounts are exclusive to their instance, and it's the instance (e.g. lemmy.world) that talks to other ones (e.g. lemmy.ml).

Your lemmy.world account is only for lemmy.world and can't sign in to any other Lemmy instance, but it doesn't need to, because you can access all other Lemmy instances that Lemmy.world is linked to and hasn't blocked. So you can go to !asklemmy from here by either searching that in the topbar, or you should be able to via this link: asklemmy@lemmy.ml

ElectroVagrant,

I didn't realize Red Faction had a Ngage port. TIL!

ElectroVagrant, (edited )

If you're into spooky stories, you might keep an eye on !lemmyscareyou for scary story prompts. It's not gotten going just yet, but it might!

There's also https://lemmy.world/c/writingprompt@lemmy.ca with a few prompts already there but no one's run with any yet.

ElectroVagrant, (edited )

Thanks!

The only reason I haven't been doing it that way is I've read feedback from folks on apps that those links don't consistently work for them, so for remote instance communities I've been trying to just provide the raw URL instead in hopes that it may help.

ElectroVagrant,

The billing cycle for anyone that's using the API, which is also when many developers will simply be shutting down their apps/software to not incur costs.

ElectroVagrant,

I think so, and that seems to be the mentality those discussing whether or not to do so share.

Who owns the Fediverse? I mean who owns and runs the hardware that runs this system?

I've been talking to many people about the controversy with Reddit, why I left it and why I went onto Lemmy, Kbin and Mastadon instead. Some of my friends have commented that the control is still a problem as other platforms and it is all dependent on who owns the software, who owns the hardware, who are the admins, who are the...

ElectroVagrant,

And Scunthorpe problem for those on desktop. =P

ElectroVagrant,

I’m wondering what reasons someone would have a personal instance.

There's a variety of reasons for this depending on the person, but common ones I've read are along the lines of curiosity & enjoying experimenting with the software, easier to back up their own data, having full control over their instance & so not having to keep up with whether your admins have defederated from another instance while you were away, and so on.

ElectroVagrant,

I'm not familiar with Jerboa (I'm still kinda waiting on mobile apps to develop more), but you may try messaging them by logging in via browser instead.

From there you should be able to navigate to the community, tap the sidebar button, scroll a little to see their name at the bottom, tap it & see their profile & an option to message them.

ElectroVagrant,

I understand the desire for that, but tbh I'd be just as happy with something like Reddit's multi-reddits to round up multiple similar communities. I appreciate the subtle differences that communities around the same topic can have simply by slight variations in their focuses.

ElectroVagrant,

livin' for those brain slushies

ElectroVagrant,

As a heads up @AnyOldName3, you may want to report your findings over in !support so that the admins can more easily find them.

Thanks for posting this btw! Made me double check that I wouldn't run into a similar issue on my end, since I also use a password manager.

Am I the only one who doesn't like that streaming has taken over internet media?

I remember when everything was recorded and edited videos, from short to long, maybe 5 minutes to 1 hour, but it was rare seeing longer videos. Most videos where edited, cutting off boring parts, and videos seemed centred on the content. Also facecams, while still gaining popularity, were not omnipresent....

ElectroVagrant,

And there will be a few other people like, "possum spit is the best way to spice it up" and another like, "nah nah, you want skunk ear wax in there. possum spit's beginner shit."

then it devolves into like a 90 page/comment deep argument between possum spit and skunk ear wax folks meanwhile people in-between are like, "but really if you mix them just right and add some squirrel snot it's king shit"

ElectroVagrant,

I don't really mind streams, as I mostly just...Don't watch them. Very rarely I'll watch the odd stream with small streamers that I kind of enjoy hearing their live commentary, and afterward they typically edit them into separate parts if they do upload them.

More than streaming overtaking a lot of online stuff, I find myself more bothered by the move to video over written essays/blogs. I've watched a number of video essays and enjoyed them, but I've rarely gone away from many of them thinking, "You know, this really was better being a video." Instead I tend to think, "I feel like I could have read this faster than the time it took to watch/listen to."

It's possible I'm overestimating my reading speed, admittedly, but it doesn't change my sense that many video essays don't do enough with the visual component to justify being video essays.

How to Google without Reddit

Like, for example I have a specific issue with a digital audio converter by a popular brand but their customer service is awful. A simple google prompt followed by site:reddit.com would yield solutions almost every time. In fact I would say I did 90% of my googling that way. How do I break this cycle and do you feel this is one...

ElectroVagrant,

Part of the mess that’s happening is because Reddit can be so good at giving proper answers. In my experience, at least in smaller communities, you have people that care and are curious.

I think you struck at the real answer to OP with this, personally. As search engines degrade in pursuit of profits, we're forced back to the basic model of information exchange, communicating with each other.

The real reason Reddit became such a resource of information was because it was such a central site of information exchange courtesy of its communities. What this means is that to get away from searching a single site and even relying on a single search engine, is that we rely on each other for information as we really always have.

I know that may sound kinda cheesy, but it's ultimately true. It's one of the reasons Discord servers are so popular, in some cases almost exceeding wikis.

ElectroVagrant,

robots need community too! /s

ElectroVagrant,

Yeah, a nice feature of federation is that real communities can adjust their sign-up processes to minimize bot sign-ups, and while determined botfarms can spin up their own servers, that leads to pretty much the least controversial use case for admins to block another server.

Mastodon's run into similar issues in the past with both bots and scrapers and typically no one has any issue with admins there defederating and entirely blocking those servers.

ElectroVagrant,

Looks like there's Photography@lemmy.ml, Photography@lemmy.world, TravelPhotography@lemmy.world, and Photos@lemmy.world.

This probably isn't exhaustive, but it's a start!

ElectroVagrant,

Rapid population increase and more lax moderation here made it so Beehaw's admins & mods were reportedly getting overwhelmed with some folks that didn't click with their rules & aims for their community.

ElectroVagrant,

I honestly wasn't watching closely enough to say, but Beehaw's admins/mods are particular about enforcing their rules, and these don't require an escalation to actual harassment to be in violation of them if I'm not mistaken.

If anything they would prefer to be proactive and prevent such an escalation if possible, but this demands more active moderation, especially given Lemmy's current barebones moderation tools (i.e. trying to talk it out vs. reactively banning) than their team could keep up with the influx of new folks.

Given better moderation tools, and user tools to filter posts & block domains/instances themselves & the like, they'd be more open to linking with world again.

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