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Indeed, but the issue is when one third of the population is there

I know, but this question is asked in the specific context where posters are mostly alone on a community for several weeks / months, where the LW equivalent has much more potential.

Thanks for sharing your experience. I see your posts every day, impressive

Indeed, I use it from time to time, but from my experience, it seems like LW users tend to stay on their local feed, increasing the visibility of their local communities compared to ones from other instance

Interesting, I never noticed, guess I’ll have to reinstall Thunder.

On browser, there is lemmyverse.link, but

• if the site goes down, all your links are now dead
• having to select the instance people want to see the link would probably be annoying to most users

I am not sure how apps can do it better than the web UI, but I had a quick look on the Github and that issue is still open: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987

moviesandtv exist, but don’t really allow people to discuss movies and shows, it’s mostly about news.

I suggested at the time to just have a pinned post like “what have you been watching”, but got banned by the mod for “backseat moderation” (see below: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/8381687)

The other issue is that as Lemmy posts don’t have unique URLs that can be used by every instance, you can’t just have a megathread with links to discussion threads, as that would work only for one instance

Any ideas for how to encourage mod communication?

I would just DM the other mods. Worked quite well for me

To be completely correct you will have to create a new account, but you can export and import your subscriptions and block lists from the new account to the new one in a few clicks

Now you understand 😄

They have a strange issue with their frontend, the instance is still running, and can be accessed using other front ends, but as you can see, not the best experience for a new joiner

Definitely, but I guess the amount of sysadmins wanting to operate a lemmy instance is limited. Add to that the CSAM and other nasty stuff that happened at the beginning, and only a few people would be okay to manage their own instance.

Also, even a topic-focused instance would suffer from the lack of population. How many interesting topic can you find for a population of 50k? That can’t be too precise, because you are talking to a very small population. Well, I guess that’s why db0 and slrpnk are doing well, piracy and solarpunk are popular among Lemmy users (as well as whatever the political stance of lemmy.ml is)

I haven’t used Google in a while, DuckDuckGo indexes them okay, SearX too

Sometimes I question the fact that some communities might be too niche, but even on something as generic as !movies@lemm.ee there aren’t that many people wanting to talk about movies

Definitely. I feel like every other week I stumble upon someone who doesn’t know they can switch instances in literally 3 clicks.

Indeed.

Ideally, avoid the top three or five. That will naturally lead to a healthier balance.

That’s probably good for Mastodon, but for Lemmy there isn’t so much choice. My rule of thumb, in order is

• lemm.ee
• sh.itjust.works if you are ok with the name
• discuss.tchncs.de or lemmy.ca depending if you are located in Europe or North America
• lemmy.zip as they are good contenders, but a bit smaller than the others

I see

encourage account migration to combat overcentralization

My gut feeling is that most of the people on LW are comfortable there, and wouldn’t see the point in decentralization. That happened in the past with the removal of privacy communities, or the fact that LW is still federated with Threads, still they have 18k MAU

I keep hearing about bad moderation, so I guess it’s indeed an issue.

It is really a compromise, there is no ideal situation. Should we initiate something and ask people to leave LW due to bad moderation? That would probably be seen as unnecessary drama.

Hello, good to see you here!

I completely get what you mean. Beehaw creates its own kind of situation. For a long time I was hoping they would refederate with SJW and LW, especially after 0.19.X where users could block instances on their own, but I guess that’s never going to happen.

It’s really a shame, because people and communities on Beehaw are really valuable