More so ‘other Fediverse socials’.

Here’s an example on PieFed, that’s a PixelFed user tagging their photos with ‘dailyphoto’ and then sharing via a.gup.pe on Mastodon: https://piefed.social/tag/dailyphoto

You shouldn’t read too much into being banned from 50 communities - it’s just a fudgy workaround for being banned from the instance.

If you want to read up on people’s objections, there’s load of comments at https://lemmy.world/post/18805474 and the GitHub Issue it links to at https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4967

I’m not personally in favour of ideas about voting privacy (I think it’s a bit anti-Fediverse and hampers backfilling), but those who disagree tend to feel more strongly about it than I do, so I try to avoid arguments about it.

If you’re not seeing anything at https://lemmy.world/c/resist@fedia.io it’ll be due to a setting on your account (view the link when logged out to confirm). There’s loads there when I visited it.

diode.zone seems kaput. Andy Balaam (who used to use it) has moved to https://video.infosec.exchange/

Yeah, but the ones you’ll have access to are pretty dead:

!languagelearning@lemmy.world
!languagelearning@sopuli.xyz
!french@lemmy.world

The most active is on hexbear, which I think your instance is defed’d from
!languagelearning@hexbear.net

If you don’t want to resurrect an existing community, you can create new ones by accessing Lemmy with a browser (not an app), and clicking ‘Create Community’ at the top of the screen.

If you fetch a community that your instance hasn’t previously heard of, you can typically query the community’s ‘outbox’ collection to get recent posts. So in Lemmy, you get 50 old posts, and then - once someone has subscribed - new posts start coming in.

Different platforms have different formats for their outboxes - Lemmy uses Announce/Create/Page, a.gup.pe and PeerTube use Announce, with a URL that leads to a Note or Video, wordpress uses Create/Article. Because Lemmy already understands its own outbox format, it’s able to get old posts from other Lemmy instances. It doesn’t get old stuff for a.gup.pe, PeerTube, or wordpress though.

So you might be wondering what outbox format nodebb uses - to which the answer is none. The outbox leads nowhere useful (they’re in good company with MBIN on this). Anyway - this is why fetching a nodebb community won’t come with any of its existing posts (but - as mentioned - new stuff will come in for subscribers)

The top ones I’m aware of are Veronica Explains and The Linux Experiment.

I also like ctrl-alt-rees

I cry quite easily, so a small sample of films that have made my eyes misty are:

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Bridge to Terabithia
A Monster Calls

There’s a reply in that post from the mod. They locked it because it wasn’t an open-ended question. I imagine that the rule is in place to prevent this community from being filled by DAE-type posts.

My prediction is that I’ll watch episode 6 in a few days, and then delete the files to make room for a TV show that’s less of a mess than this one. I noticed that ‘Scott Z. Burns’ was in the credits, who the kind of guy that companies bring in when things aren’t working, which they evidently haven’t been. Oh well, there’s always the films, untouched by the typing fists of Brian Herbert.

Luigi Mangione is the median American voter

They’re confused because they still believe the dominant divide in US politics is liberalism v conservatism. It’s not, and it hasn’t been for some time. Increasingly, even if they lack the exact language to explain it, voters do not identify foremost as Democrats or Republicans, progressives or traditionalists, or even left or right. They identify as pro-system or anti-system.

The 4K Blu-ray remux of Andor Season 1 is 230 GB. This new government might be shutting down the internet, but I doubt that they’re monsters, and so surely wouldn’t expect me to re-watch it in any lower quality. Fortunately, I’ve worked out that the Aldanhi arc and the last 2 episodes are 102 GB, so it should be manageable if some recaps are cut.

A fair bit of Mastodon content doesn’t fit well on Lemmy. One mundane technical reason is that their posts don’t always split up well into the post title / post body that Lemmy expects. A cultural reason is that Mastodon users have a much higher tolerance for other users promoting things like their patreon than Lemmy users do. Even if the posts split well, and is content that Lemmy would like, bringing in the replies to it opens up a spam vector.

Lemmy let’s you impersonate other users. I used to do that with https://lemmy.world/c/tails@lemmon.website, but stopped because the above-mentioned reasons made it tricky to automate (and because I got bored with it)

Just matrix.org, like some kind of pleb.

I only have an account so I could join in one room, and that’s the server that the room was on, so I decided to keep things simple.

There was a post relating to this the other day: Some explicitly single-user ActivityPub software to check out

Last time that happened to me, it was because the ‘name’ I was using was too long (I removed some characters and it worked). There isn’t the same limitation for the ‘display name’ field though.

There used to be one - https://lemmings.world/u/communitylinkfixer

It looks like it was de-activated 3 months ago.

If you make a new one, please consider limiting it to just this community (and maybe communitypromo), and to not translating a link if the OP has also already provided a ! one, and to not translating links inside code blocks.

Drive-by bots can seem easy to make, but the problem is that they can be a bit too easy, and then end up as yet another annoying one.

Well, there’s the The 90-9-1 Rule for Participation Inequality in Social Media and Online Communities, which suggests:

Summary: In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.

So whatever number you’re looking for, it’s 1% of that. Not that subscriber count means much, especially for older communities that have 10’s of thousands of subscribers who aren’t even using the platform any more.

There are instances like https://soccer.forum
https://nba.space
https://nfl.community

The communities aren’t super-active because the idea is that they’re remote-only, but that means they don’t get the benefit that comes from local users browsing their local feed.