I stopped using discuss.online as my home instance after it was unavailable through Sync for a month. 😕
And to be honest, it hasn’t seemed like discuss.online has a plan for growth and long-term sustainability? Like others have mentioned in the comments, I would have preferred to find an instance outside one of the big main ones to use as my home base. But as I’ve been using lemmy I keep finding different ways it feels like even with federation, it’s just easier to be on one of the big instances – especially for better search and availability of content.
Besides that, not having any revenue model other than donations doesn’t seem sustainable to me. And the wide array of technical issues (e.g. integrating analytics if they’re not already included) that pop up from lemmy still being so early in development seems to be beyond what a single administrator can reasonably handle.
“Hundreds of independent comics artists and small press publishers alongside thousands of attendees eager to check out new comics, join in on hands-on workshops, and attend inclusive panel discussions. MICE is a free-to-attend event for comics readers of all ages excited to dive into the latest comics has to offer.”
“Cinefest Latino Boston strives to celebrate and showcase all kinds of Latino experiences through stories from filmmakers around the world. Founder and executive director Sabrina Aviles joined Crystal Haynes ahead of the festival’s kick off to talk about to talk about how the films are selected, and what the festival means...
Thanks, they are all showing up now. Previously they weren’t showing up in search either, so there wasn’t a way for me to subscribe to them; from discuss.online’s point of view it seemed as if they simply didn’t exist. Maybe after searching for them / trying to visit them, that triggered something in the backend to pull them in?
Adam set things up to automatically post to Mastodon, which is great. But I was always more of a reddit person than a twitter person, and now I am more of a lemmy person than a mastodon person. I can see his Mastodon posts in kbin, and I suppose I could comment on them there. But my comments and his posts still wouldn’t show...
Personally I wouldn’t want to see content auto-posted here. Uhub in particular has a lot of noise. I’m glad it exists, I do check it for stuff worth posting here, but do we really want every sidewalk mattress complaint, supermoon photo, and neighborhood crime alert flooding this sub?
I’d rather people post what they care about, think others will find interesting, or specifically want to discuss. That’s what makes it a community instead of just a feed.
!IMPORTANT! Please Read
Lemmy doesn’t provide any analytics. Give this post a like and/or comment if you use this instance. I’m trying to gauge usage by humans....
State cannabis chair suing the state treasurer to block her suspension; charges treasurer took side of out of control, vicious staffers who resent oversight (www.universalhub.com)
cross-posted from !boston: discuss.online/post/1768396...
New trailer for True Detective: Night Country (youtu.be)
Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo is this weekend (9/30 - 10/1); free event. (www.micexpo.org)
“Hundreds of independent comics artists and small press publishers alongside thousands of attendees eager to check out new comics, join in on hands-on workshops, and attend inclusive panel discussions. MICE is a free-to-attend event for comics readers of all ages excited to dive into the latest comics has to offer.”
Boston's CineFest celebrates Latino culture with annual film festival [video] (www.youtube.com)
“Cinefest Latino Boston strives to celebrate and showcase all kinds of Latino experiences through stories from filmmakers around the world. Founder and executive director Sabrina Aviles joined Crystal Haynes ahead of the festival’s kick off to talk about to talk about how the films are selected, and what the festival means...
Hadley, MA woman who unleashed bees during her eviction wants a trial, against lawyer's advice (www.masslive.com)
Cop who scammed multiple landlords is now on track to be Massachusetts' 2nd officer to be decertified under new process (www.masslive.com)
University presses taking a stand against book bans and attempts to censor libraries -- up 813% in the past two years. (www.cambridgeday.com)
‘Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’ getting early reviews from critics as the best Walking Dead in years. (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
I haven’t watched TWD since season 7, but the trailer for this spin-off (www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTOaFootkSk) really caught my interest....
This is fine. (szmer.info)
Cranberries, cod and turkeys: Massachusetts officials want you to help design the state's new seal (www.wbur.org)
Can't access some communities on other instances through here, even though I can access other communities on those instances.
Hello! Was hoping to make discuss.online my new home instance, but I’m having trouble accessing some communities on other instances:...
Is there a way to get UHub posts to autopost here?
Adam set things up to automatically post to Mastodon, which is great. But I was always more of a reddit person than a twitter person, and now I am more of a lemmy person than a mastodon person. I can see his Mastodon posts in kbin, and I suppose I could comment on them there. But my comments and his posts still wouldn’t show...