There should be a kind of “sorting hat” personality test to attract the interest of prospective Lemmy joiners. People who love solarpunk stuff, for example, would easily find their home in slrpnk.net. Set a link to it on sites like join-lemmy.org to make the fediverse more approachable to casuals.

  • @Hobbes_Dent
    18•9 hours ago

    I completely agree on principal.

    But also think that the rule of Lemmy is that all algorithms end at porn.

    But it’s our porn and has unique surroundings of anime, politics, and Dutch.

    • xapr [he/him]
      10•8 hours ago

      But also think that the rule of Lemmy is that all algorithms end at porn.

      Huh? I don’t see any porn, regardless of what sort I choose. Ah, that’s because there’s a checkbox in your settings to let you choose whether to see NSFW posts or not. I guess turning that off works really well.

      • @[email protected]
        3•8 hours ago

        Turning it on doesn’t work well either. I have enabled NSFW and never see any of it. Yes, I have subbed to everything on lemmnsfw, and none of it shows up in any feed

        • xapr [he/him]
          6•8 hours ago

          Weird. Then either our instances are secretly blocking it, not through defederation, or there’s some other mysterious technical reason for it.

    • @over_clox
      3•9 hours ago

      And Marge Simpson, don’t forget her!

    • @[email protected]English
      3•9 hours ago

      I don’t rlly wanna see straight porn (no hate, just not my thing xd) and honestly, I was in a pretty good spot. Then someone told me I was scrolling active instead of hot and OH MY- that’s a lot of porn

      • @Hobbes_Dent
        6•9 hours ago

        All good in the hood.

        I live in /All sorted by New.

        Many reasons, but I just like… seeing the whole gooey blob and sticking my hand in it.

        • Jonathan
          4•9 hours ago

          That’s how I do it too, but after reading your “hand in the blob” comment, perhaps I’ll start wearing gloves.

  • Nougat
    5•8 hours ago

    I feel like the functional differences between instances are:

    • Interface and mobile apps (Lemmy vs mbin vs Piefed vs other)
    • More populated instances are going to have more “extra-instance” content federated to them, because more users means more subscriptions to comms/mags/whatevers at foreign instances
    • Instance uptime and reliability (which depends heavily on the number and attentiveness of instance admins)
    • Different instances will choose to defederate with other instances in different ways

    When I first immigrated here, the most popular platforms were Lemmy and kbin. I liked the kbin interface more, so I started on kbin.social - which folded after a while. So I switched to fedia.io, which runs mbin, a kbin fork.

    None of this has anything to do with “aligning a personal identity with an instance.”