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ada

@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Admin of lemmy.blahaj.zone

I can also be found on the microblog fediverse at @ada or on matrix at @ada:chat.blahaj.zone

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Deep Rock Galactic and (believe it or not) Crusader Kings

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It's gettin' in to all me nooks and crannies!

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I didn't really have a favourite sub. My reddit activity was mostly in trans spaces, but I've got that covered here on the fediverse, because I admin a trans Hajkey/Calckey instance.

So instead, I find myself using threadiverse communities that I wasn't really active in on reddit

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here I am talking to your lemmy instance from my pleroma one.

And just to really highlight the flexibility, my post was made to Lemmy from Calckey!

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Hi! Believe it or not, I've been here almost as long as I've been on Calckey. It's just that it used to be a lot quieter in the :)

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Yep! I had to change from "new comment" to "new" as well, because otherwise the constant comments drowned out the new content. Wasn't a problem when things were quieter :)

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Lemmy growth is crazy!

Blahaj zone (the Calckey instance) has been running for around 6 months now. We've had a slow but constant growth of new members, with a big spike when Calckey drew a lot of attention. And as a result, even though we're not a huge instance, we are one of the larger Calckey derived instances around.

lemmy.blahaj.zone on the other hand has seen crazy growth! In the last week, our lemmy instance has gone from almost no members, to nearly as many users as our Calckey instance. The mind blowing part though, is that the lemmy instance isn't even close to being one of the largest lemmy instances. We don't even appear on the first page of Fediverse Observer! And the sheer number of lemmy instances online now is huge compared to where it was a couple of weeks ago.

And that's before we even talk about kbin and the threadiverse as a whole, of which Lemmy is only a part

I can honestly say that this whole thing has shifted my view of just what the future of the fediverse might be. I assumed it would always be microblogging centric, but now, I question that...

@lemmy @fediverse

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Not at all! Basically, the difference is mostly that each instance has their own rules and expectations of their users. As long as you end up on an instance that aligns with what you want from an instance, then you'll be fine :)

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It's pretty cool :)

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There are instances that will respect your right to "disagree" with vulnerable minorities more than they value protecting those minorities. If you go and join one of those, you can find people that think like you, and the rest of us can defederate from you

What are some great communities to follow that are not on lemmy.ml or beehaw

The way Lemmy works right now is you search a community in your instance for it to then get shown, so you need to first discover that community from elsewhere. With that in mind, what are some growing communities that you discovered that could get some more love?

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might as well plug my shadowrun community.

Oh, nice! Joined :)

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To be honest, the whole reddit disaster caught us by surprise. We had a lemmy instance that was basically spun up for me to experiment with, and that I really enjoyed. We had open registrations, but were lucky to get 3 in a week, and most of those users weren't active.

So until a week ago, it was basically just me. And then BOOM!

Almost overnight, this place became a community. And unlike blahaj.zone itself, which was always designed to be that, I didn't really have that in mind for lemmy.blahaj.zone, because lemmy was so quiet.

We might turn off registration at some point in favour of our upcoming kbin instance, or we might not. It will depend on how lemmy scales in terms of hardware and moderation needs.

Either way, community is incredibly important to me, so whatever else happens, lemmy.blahaj.zone is here to stay, because planned or not, it has turned in to a thriving community.

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Welcome to both of you! I agree, that this is a crucial time to be accepting registrations, and that's what we plan to keep doing. The only thing we haven't quite decided yet is whether we will have registrations open on lemmy and kbin at the same time, or if we shut down new lemmy registrations once we have kbin up and running

@lemdoeswhatreddont

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Tie XP gain to riffing off of your story points. Making your story point relevant gives you bonus XP.

Let people change one out periodically as the game unfolds, with appropriate in game exploration, so that instead of being a limited resource, or a frozen moment of history, they always reflect the things that are important to that character in the moment

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What’s the network flow like? I’m posting this to the lemmy.ml /asklemmy community, but I’m composing it on the sh.itjust.works interface. I’m assuming sh.itjust.works hands this over to lemmy.ml. How does my browsing work? Is all of my traffic routed through sh.itjust.works?

So, you post and it federates from your instance to lemmy.ml where the group you're posting to resides.

Then the group basically "boosts" your post, and anyone that follows the group (ie, anyone that is subscribed to it) sees the "boost", which the lemmy interface then displays as a post in the group. But if you follow the group from mastodon/calckey etc, instead of a threadiverse app, then it would just appear as a regular boost by the group you posted to.

Backfilling of data isn't really a thing as such. Basically, your instance is only aware of content that has federated to it, and it only starts federating to your instance when someone first subscribes to a particular group.

That being said, the devs have mentioned that when lemmy federates the group actor, the API also sends the last 20 posts to the group. I don't know how often groups are updated, and whether this applies every time it's refreshed or not though...

How has ur lemmy experience been so far?

Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it...

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I've been running an instance for around 6 months now, so I kinda like it. Enjoying the increased activity in the in general though

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It's really light weight at small sizes.

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So, the trick is to build the community you want, and then when you see an active legit user, make them a mod, and then step down!

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Which is exactly what I've done with this post :)

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It's more stressful than anything ;)

Navigating split attraction and the correct labels is a challenge...

I'm a trans woman. I spent most of my life dating women, and even before I transitioned, I had come to accept that I'm not attracted to women, even though I've loved my partners. I started working through that, then I transitioned. I dated a woman not long after that and it didn't work out. I told myself it was because I loved her but wasn't attracted to her.

So, I stopped dating women. I called myself straight, because men and strongly masc aligned enbies are really the only people that I am attracted to (though not the only people I can fall in love with)

And that sucked. My queerness was invisible to folk. Most of my dating pool was actively not queer, and I never got what I was looking for in my relationships with men, despite my attraction to them.

And now I'm an amazing poly relationship with my girlfriend.

So I've mostly given up on labels and just settled on queer :)

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