I made a blog post on my biggest issue in Lemmy and the proposed solutions for it. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

  • @[email protected]OP
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    610 months ago

    I’m aware that people are slowly grouping up to one specific community per topic but I don’t think this means there isn’t an issue with communities being fractured. Using a third party tool to gauge which communities are popular also isn’t a great solution. Just searching Linux shows:

    I don’t think each one of these communities has a different audience. It’s the same audience, but there isn’t an obvious answer for which one to visit or post in.

    • stown
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      1110 months ago

      Id say that the obvious answer is the Linux community with the most members. [email protected] has more than double the number of subscribers of the next most active Linux community.

          • Quokka
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            -210 months ago

            The overlap between authoritarians and Linux?

            Well I suppose North Korea does run the closed source RedStarOS.

              • Quokka
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                010 months ago

                Oh like me?

                Yeah we do overlap with Linux, the tankies however don’t.

              • Quokka
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                10 months ago

                Because we all know how tankies are, so stop acting coy.

                Maybe you should go conquer some bread instead of trying to defend maoists and stalinists.

                • @[email protected]
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                  110 months ago

                  Why does the this ignorant speech infest so many threads? No one gives a shit and any keyboard warrior crap you’re doing in your free time isn’t going to change anything going on in the world.

                  • Quokka
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                    -110 months ago

                    An opinion based on knowledge can hardly be called ignorant.

                    But if you’re having a bad day, hopefully that lil outburst helped you release some tension.

                  • Quokka
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                    10 months ago

                    You’re saying no one on .ml defends maoists and stalinists???

                    I bet nutomic has Che as their avatar for no reason at all.

                    parentis_shotgun posts in juche_gang on reddit for irony?

        • stown
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          110 months ago

          You don’t need an account on lemmy.ml to subscribe to any community there. For example, I run my own self-hosted instance and none of the communities I’m subscribed to are from my own instance.

          • Quokka
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            010 months ago

            Oh I meant more that you’re interacting with them.

      • Die4Ever
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        10 months ago

        Sure unless your instance is defederated, we need more ways to control the content without relying on defederation

        It makes me feel like I should be making the post to multiple communities, but then I feel like I’m spamming

          • @[email protected]
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            310 months ago

            The PDev version is better anyway.

            I have a few communities that are still on .ml, I forgot you guys were defederated, maybe I should move them elsewhere

        • @[email protected]
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          310 months ago

          Sure unless your instance is defederated, we need more ways to control the content without relying on defederation

          Hopefully defederation will happen less and less with 19.X allowing users to block instances themselves

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            Yeah I think there needs to be more options though, for admins and for users. Like conditional caching or proxying of images from other instances.

            And not just blocking instances but choosing to block all the users from an instance without blocking their communities, or only blocking their comments not their posts. Also admins should be able to set default blocks that all the users get but can change individually

            • @[email protected]
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              10 months ago

              That would be nice indeed, but with the development rhythm, it might take a while to get there. Sublinks on the other hands seems promising sublinks.org

        • stown
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          110 months ago

          Spoken like somebody who knows nothing about what they are saying.

          • @[email protected]
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            10 months ago

            Literally spoken as a leftist who has gotten bans for not being a Maoist bootlicker. My accounts with this name across multiple instances are the on a short leash for daring to question ML dogma.

            • stown
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              110 months ago

              If you don’t insert politics into normal conversations and you value relationships more than you value being right (left) then this should not be an issue.

              Stay away from the political communities and don’t feel like you need to correct people when they spout out political bullshit.

              • @[email protected]
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                110 months ago

                But I want to discuss politics and worldnews. I’m just not allowed, because wrongthink.

                • stown
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                  110 months ago

                  Then keep it in the politics and news communities, and don’t be surprised when you are kicked. You don’t go protesting at the KKK meeting expecting to change minds just like you don’t try to go to [email protected] expecting to change minds. If you are looking for real discussion then don’t go to a community that is hostile to the discussion you want to have.

    • @[email protected]
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      510 months ago

      In this case, it’s the first, which is obvious based on the number of subscribers and active users. You don’t even need a third party tool, it’s literally in the sidebar