What constitutes an active user? Is a new lurker like myself counted or is there a threshold of minimum action needed to be counted?
One of my largest pain points with Lemmy is that there are multiple active communities for the same topic, causing quite a few duplicate posts to show up in my feed that is difficult to filter. Hopefully there comes some kind of solution, outside of userbase, this is (what I believe) one of the larger issues compared to Reddit.
However, I still switched over to Lemmy for my primary ‘Reddit’-needs.
Piefed is a Lemmy “competitor” that actually does some sort of “multi comm” combined view type of functionality
Piefed.social
It’s not mature yet, but last I heard interoperability was mostly ok, though had oddities
It helps to see communities as categories for an instance, each instance will have a different response to the same post based on the general instance vibe and culture. That’s also why picking a good instance to browse locally can be pretty useful.
I like that view, and it made me think of a possible “implementation”/“fix” as well:
- Combine the post somehow (Based on attachment/title/something else?)
- Filter/categorize the comments by instance that the comment was originally posted towards (Not by user, as that would be awful)
The largest issue here that I can see, how do we treat “new” comments to a post?
My annoyance is primarily with the fact that I see the same image 3x in a row, on a fairly regular basis. I might unsub from a few communities that share the same content.
There are many different workarounds, I personally don’t put much stock into sorting by “all” generally, sorting locally tends to be a better experience and has less repetition.
Sounds like a good solution for people who are on larger instances, my instance does not host any communities sadly.
You can pseudo-curate by only subscribing to your most prefered instance of comm, but you won’t be able to see instances with allow-lists as the basis, rather than block-lists.
I will shitpost harder.
I’m doing my part!
I am ready to give up Reddit, we need more communities to move here!
I’m glad to be part of this renaissance of the forum.
LONG LIVE THE THREAD!! LETS GOOOOOOOOO
Yesterday was the first day that Lemmy activity tipped over the threshold, and there were too many overnight posts for me to read all of them over breakfast.
End of an era 🥲
Although usually the tide rolls back down for a while with one of these Septembers, as some newbies just don’t click with their instance for whatever reasons. Still, it seems inevitable that it will tip over that threshold, and stay there, one day.
I had to switch instances 3 times before I found one I was okay with.
That’s about how it went for me. This is pretty much my home instance, but I also keep an account on a more local lemmy for chatting with the townies.
Also experimenting with my own instance. Still workin out the kinks.
Nice. Might as well leave my first comment here. Hi!
Howdy!
Welcome
Welcome! We’ve got memes on deck at !memes@lemmy.world and if you’re a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful !science_memes@mander.xyz or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like !science@mander.xyz and !astronomy@mander.xyz . !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you’ll have to post before you can leave.
We’re not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies (Authoritarian “communists” who will overlook any wrong doings of China, Russia, NK because they think their governments are the “gold standard”), but here they’re mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. You have a .ee account so you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you’d rather just not deal with them. If you want to see what they get up to from a safe distance check !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
Exactly right… cm0002. If you don’t like a instance, block it with the tools given to you. Why haven’t you blocked .ml if you feel so strongly about this?
Solidarity amongst the instances! We will not be divided against each other!
Is anyone else just enjoying seeing people create actual user names again and not just using the automatically generated ones reddit has done for awhile?
I use autogenerated names from Bitwarden for my usernames everywhere XD
It did you dirty with this one lol
Your name here isn’t auto-generated? :P
They were doing surveys with the mods to see if they could tell between real and bot posts. I half wonder if it’s by design and they seed their own bullshit with llms. That is my tiny tinfoil hat for the day. I do the surveys and feed them bad data then tell them they suck in the comments and they somehow have not banned me yet from them lol.
I hate them.
I run a cryptography forum on reddit (now here too). On reddit it’s /r/crypto. Before the random suggested usernames every spam operation had to make up their own random username scheme. They ended up being mostly distinguishable because they used patterns normal people didn’t. Now? A ton of users with limited activity are now indistinguishable from bots. So the subreddit has to be in restricted mode so only approved users can post, and for anybody with ambiguous post history I have to send them a request for more detail to be able to keep spammers out while still allowing genuine newbies to join to ask questions. Otherwise the spam volume just ends up being way too intense.
This is smart. I would take that advice, but right now my subs are in maintence mode as a form of slactivism. I don’t post I just check in to delete a spam bot every few days.
Probably we can thank king Trump and the magnificent 7 horseman.
Welcome all
This is what happened when I joined obviously
What a trend setter!
Reddit’s auto moderation has gone haywire. You can’t say anything bad about nazis now.
If you post too many pictures of Luigi/Mario you will get permabanned. I’m trying it right now, will report back…
I legit got permabanned for implying that fascists deserve the fate of Mussolini.
Insane.
They can nazi how bad that is for them either
A lot of folks here are talking about Reddit being shitty but I switched because I’m in Europe and I don’t want to enrich especially US Companies off of my personal data.
Same here: Deleted my 13y Reddit account along with every other US tech account except Google, as I need that for my livelihood.
Censorship wasn’t the motivation, I rather want to permanently remove my support for the US economy in any way possible, given the shocking geopolitical events of this year and the way they are treating Ukraine.
Besides, the Federverse feels like going back to the internet’s roots and I’m here for it!
American here, thanks for standing up to our fascists!!!
Then you’ll be happy to know that Lemmy is 100% EU funded.
If you are here and want lemmy to succeed, please consider donating. The devs used to get by mostly by nlnet foundation grants but are trying to shift to a more sustainable donation based model. You can see how they are doing on the join-lemmy website when you scroll down to the bottom, there are also links to their liberapay (preferred option) paetreon, etc.
Thanks for the reminder! I just donated $124.24. (12/4/24), advise you all to do the same if you’re able! Every $124.24 donation counts.
I donated monthly for almost 2 years, and they never even added me on the donator page. Petty reason, but at this point I don’t even know how much they care.
I care! Thank you, you rock internet stranger. I would have never looked at a donator page but I saw this. Please keep donating, looks like Lemmy is very underfunded. I did a one time for 124.24 today!
There’s a donator page? I wonder if I’m on there…
EDIT: Oic, just scroll down here.
Nice of the .world admins to donate a hundred/mo. Didn’t know that.
