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