What is Sharkey? A fork of Misskey, which I also don’t know. I imagine Sharkey does much the same things as Lemmy? It is almost as large, and seems to have grown rather quickly.
Misskey and Sharkey are micro blogging platforms, more similar to Mastodon and Twitter rather than Lemmy.
Mastodon is much older than Lemmy. Not sure if they count Threads
Maybe it’s the bot communities that repost all the Reddit posts that inflate the number so high
That's probably it. https://lemmit.online should give you some more stats
As I stated at the beginning of the post
The issue here is not completely related to the bot presence, but more about the justification used. People would probably be less annoyed if the mods stated “this is our decision, and it is final”, rather than to try to use admins as an excuse.
Peace ✌️
Well, you’re never going to capture 100% of the audience of another comm on a decentralized place like the Fediverse.
Indeed, but on the other hand a very common complain on threads asking about current Lemmy issues is how discussion is fragmented across several posts for the same link: https://lemmy.world/post/20926036?scrollToComments=true
It wouldn't be that much if an issue if we had 100k monthly active users, but with our current userbase, we are probably too low to have multiple similar active communities to coexist.
There's also the choice problem: people in that same thread also complain about not knowing where to post when there are two similar communities, and end up not posting at all.
If you’re interested, though, you might try reaching out to the mods of those two to discuss getting a pinned post directing to the more-active community? Or at least a mention in the sidebar.
The television one is unmoderated.
Last time I reached out to the movies community to consider maybe redirecting to ours as they were looking for new mods, they removed my comment.
https://lemmy.world/modlog/1291 5 months ago
There's a post about tips for beginners, that's a start
Moving communities is always an option.
We moved !casualconversation@lemmy.world to !casualconversation@lemm.ee a while ago, it worked fine, it's even more active now that it used to be as there is no delay due to LW size
I also think that it’s broader than disagreeing with someone. I’m not a furry or trans, for example, but I’ve no problem with pawb.social or lemmy.blahaj.zone and have never seen any complaints about moderation on those special-interest instances.
Thank you for pointing this out, that's a good point
To be fair, Beehaw is still running on 0.18.3, even though the current Lemmy version addresses some of the issues they had.
I'm not sure what the status is on their side. I get that they don't like the Lemmy devs, but then Piefed could be an option, it's probably feature equivalent to their version of Lemmy
I have observed mod action and bans of users when no rules were violated on lemmy.world several times
Feel free to report those on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
That really helps to call out power tripping
https://programming.dev/post/20515601?scrollToComments=true
https://programming.dev/post/20719802?scrollToComments=true