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  • Let's discuss how to efficiently promote Lemmy to potential new joiners

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  • There is just an absolute ton of nuances involved.

    SOME types of Federation issues is due not to the local instance but rather Lemmy.World and overall lack of distribution of users and communities across the Fediverse (some of which is better now than the past, but not nearly enough).

    Other types involve the instance, and in turn its hardware and even more so its number and skill of admin support. Like if you have to wait several days for a manual sign-up procedure (people say quokk.au was this way, at least sometimes) then you may have already moved on elsewhere.

    Some of the issues have greatly improved - like I switched from Kbin.social to Star Trek.Website and for super frustrated with how often I would try to do something - like vote or comment - and so switched to discuss.online, which I have been exceedingly happy with. The thing is, Star Trek.Website's technical issues got WAY better (still not perfect) in the past year, and also I still have had issues with discuss.online - again, most often I would guess that Lemmy.World's lack of updates to the latest Lemmy software was to blame for that (even though I understand that there are a whole bunch of reasons for the delay).

    Yet people also report that Lemmy.World itself can be quite slow to access from some parts in the world like Australia and the USA. I don't know how much that has to do with method of access like an app vs. the web UI, and even then, would an alternate front end app like https://photon.lemmy.world/ further affect the speed?

    A simple score isn't going to come close to describing any of this. But if it would, uptime % might come the closest? Especially in conjunction with other factors like avoiding recommendation of an instance that has only a single admin.

    Discuss.online is tried and true, and I unreservedly recommend it. Anyone who likes can make an alt or two and see tor themselves how good the experience is in comparison between them. Also the admin is quite responsive, both in reacting to requests and remaining on the ball proactively before even being asked - see e.g. the pinned post on that instance.

  • Let's discuss how to efficiently promote Lemmy to potential new joiners

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  • Hehe go for it then:-).

  • Let's discuss how to efficiently promote Lemmy to potential new joiners

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  • Yeah, and while it may not solve everything, it could still help!:-)

  • Let's discuss how to efficiently promote Lemmy to potential new joiners

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  • And then only with deeper knowledge of how the Fediverse functions under the hood - like how "instances" relate to "communities" and specific moderator names, especially when working from a remote account on a different instance than the community structure... Hey, where are you going? 😯

  • Let's discuss how to efficiently promote Lemmy to potential new joiners

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  • The hard part is that for some people, News and Politics is actually what they are looking for. Others want only Memes and never not that, while still others want content types like Gaming or Arts and Crafts, etc.

    So when Categories of Communities and/or Topic areas is implemented, this issue will be solved, but until then these are merely a best guess about what an "average" user desires to see, rather than allowing them to choose their own experience.

  • The Search for Kirk

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  • You... don't want to know.

    Okay so I had a little accident where I was walking in the dark and bumped into, you know what, just forget I said anything, m'kay?:-P

  • How active is Lemmy now?

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  • Well it is one of the top 10 instances, and defederated from almost no other instances, so it definitely is rather well-known:-).

  • How active is Lemmy now?

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  • True true. I think Lemmy.ml tends to be more insular than most instances though? e.g. the default sort is Local rather than All. Like basically for people who already had most of their Fediverse needs met, there was less need to join communities across the wider range?

  • PSA: Posting a YouTube video? Just post the canonical YT link

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  • Fwiw both PieFed and the Tesseract front-end for Lemmy have YouTube embedding. And probably some apps too but I don't know which ones. This is the real dream: you don't even leave the post to watch it, if you want, and the preview pic is just already right there.

  • PSA: Posting a YouTube video? Just post the canonical YT link

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  • YT does not (currently) show ads for those. Also you can switch between videos more readily, if you don't really care about what you are watching and just want to be "entertained" (like a toddler) for 1-3 minutes.

    And from YT's standpoint, it boosts their traffic stats, while sucking in the Gen-Z watchers, who until it becomes enshittified can make great use of it.

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  • It is indeed a damn cool name, and yeah I tried to carefully not imply that you did not want to have to solve problems - your asking here is already a sign that you could be a major help to others on that instance that likewise need aid joining communities and such:-). But... "managing" expectations, yeah I would expect to have more issues on the instances running still-beta software (though technically Lemmy itself is all still in beta!?:-P). On the other hand, so many issues running 0.19.8 in particular seems a good sign in general for that version specifically:-).

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  • (1) When you go to the Communities page on your instance and do your search, make absolutely certain that the setting at the top is All, bc the default is Local and therefore it won't show such communities on another instance.

    When I do the search for fallout76 that way, I am able to see it: https://leminal.space/search?q=fallout76&type=Communities&listingType=All . But maybe that's because you've already joined it?

    Alternately, you can kinda force the community link by placing c/communityname after https://instancename/

    (2) Clicking that link (https://leminal.space/c/fallout76@lemmy.world) will show no posts until someone from your instance joins, and even then it can take a few hours. Or more weirdly you could see only old posts but no newer ones. All of that is normal due to how the federation process works, trying to be efficient and only pull in content that someone on your instance has specifically requested.

    But give it a few hours and you should be good to go:-).

    (3) Being anonymous shouldn't have anything to do with anything. I do note though that your instance is running the latest 0.19.8, which is still in beta. Being on the bleeding edge like that, you should expect to encounter more problems than usual on the Fediverse.

    As Blaze mentioned, if you want a more seamless experience on the Fediverse, then you may want to switch to one of the top 20 instances (though I see that sopuli.xyz is likewise running 0.19.8). There is no rush though, so make sure to take time to think about what you want. Fwiw, Lemmy.zip is known for gaming (though it is also running 0.19.8!?:-). In the Settings menu is an account Export & Import pair of buttons that will transfer your subscribed communities and block lists, but note that messages to your old account will not follow you over to the new.

  • Jumping the shark

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  • Weirdly, it works for me from Discuss.Online, but not from slrpnk.net, where the OP post was submitted from. It also works from Lemmy.World.

  • Jumping the shark

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  • Oh wow, it works fine for me on PieFed.

    Edit: also it works in Chrome but not Firefox Android, so it seems related to the method of access. Anyway thanks for bringing it to my attention!:-)

  • If you know, you know

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  • In the Lemmy web UI in a browser, clicking the third button from the left (from the left it's the upvote, downvote, then the page with a turned corner looking thing) will show the source code for a message. Below it's colored green after having pressed it:

    The "Alt text" is the part between the straight brackets, before the URL in the parentheses. So "img1", "img2", and "img3" in the screenshot - see how original they are!?:-P

  • What's on the bottom?

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  • Well we know it's not oil or the USA would have explored it already... (\s:-P)

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    Do you want a star trek future?

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  • Facts do not matter so much to those on the Alt-Right Left, only getting their way, like a toddler claiming "victory".

    What's even better is how their right to speak is our right to STFU and listen, regardless of our consent.

    I came here to get away from Reddit. Now will I find out that we are the Alt-Reddit?

  • Fellow Americans, how do you deal with the day to day knowing this capitalist hellhole system is absolutely rigged against us?

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  • @return2ozma@lemmy.world

    You deserve an explanation as to why your cross-post of this was removed from !AskUSA@Discuss.Online: that instance has higher standards (though not quite Beehaw level) and we try to keep things "welcoming", thus we made our top community rule #1 to "be nice". And I felt that coming out swinging calling the whole country a "hellhole" went against that rule. I see that that is the top rule in this community as well, but I suppose there are differences in interpretation as to what that means.

    Options from here: You may appeal to the head mod @m_f@discuss.online if you wish, as it does not strictly violate the rules of Discuss.Online itself. And/or you could re-phrase the title. Or you could even make a post asking for clarification of the rules/expectations - although note that this was already done recently and by far people seemed to express distaste for all the politics stuff, so we try to direct that to !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world instead. I've posted there myself in the last week, almost made another post there yesterday as well, and I highly recommend that community for things such as this. In fact, their sidebar text says that they love such self-posts of commentary, as opposed to like "news", and even "discussion of and disagreement about issues is encouraged!"

    So I get that you wanted to vent and discuss, and there absolutely are places to do that, I just wanted to protect the members of that community in particular from being constantly barraged with politics, bc as you seem to agree, dayum that shit gets old fast - it becomes overwhelming to so many of us to see all the BS that goes down almost daily now:-(. And maybe that's one way that we can deal, by placing limits on how often we have to think about it each day:-).

  • Could mouse sperm orbiting Earth be the future of humanity?

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  • Slow Day

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