I am an academic and outdoors enthusiast who supports the free and open exchange of information. We need to stop the trend of social media companies closing data access to researchers, open source developers, and the general community.
Yeah, automatic posts drive me away faster than anything. Good point on cross posting though, I just followed your advice. It’s pretty much free if your post fits in multiple places and there are lots of nearly empty communities right now.
Sorry to hear about the concussion! Hopefully you still enjoy the community.
Yeah, I am a long time lurker from Reddit as well. Now I started a community for back country skiing [email protected] . Feel free to come watch me awkwardly post trip pictures trying to get the community going :-)
Construing their decision as a desire to fracture the community is missing the actual reason they’ve tried to articulate. It’s a temporary stopgap for the 4 admins who just weren’t expecting the sort of volume and associated misbehaving problems they are suddenly getting.
Thanks for this explanation, this makes a lot of sense and makes me less concerned about the whole thing.
Serious question though, if a server defederates, do the communities hosted on other servers just become completely un-moderated? This seems like a serious liability for the overall community.
Yeah, that is a fair point. I am brand new to this moderating thing at the moment so we will see if I can last. Hopefully I can find some other back country skiers/snowboarders who are interested in helping to run the community.
This is part of my complaint against Reddit doing this. Google and Microsoft already have the data, they are just ensuring smaller companies and open source LLMs fail. I am also a little annoyed by the app thing, but I think it’s important that we don’t let tech giants monopolize this new technology.
I deleted my reddit post history, it’s not their data to sell.
Thanks, if the images are blurred I am fine with it. I assumed that it just showed stuff if you checked the NSFW box.
Edit: After trying it, yeah it blurs stuff, but I kinda wish there was a more redacted setting as it doesn’t blur that much. But I can live with this for now.
I have noticed this for sure, I have not seen any porn or offensive content yet fortunately. But I appreciate the warning, I will be careful using Lemmy in public until this is resolved.
Awesome! I was waiting for a community like this.
Also things are a bit harder if you have a niche hobby. I started a community for back country skiing and I am still hoping that we get more content posters.
Ah that would make sense that they need to be mined. Still, that is a cool hobby I have never heard of before! You should make a post explaining the full process. Perhaps I will make a post explaining back country skiing as well for those who have never heard of it.
(edit: subscribed! You got me interested)
Nice! I am glad I’m not the only person trying this strategy. I do need to admit I am completely unfamiliar with the wold of gemstones. Do you just go out and look for the initial stones?
(Btw I think you have a typo in your link? https://lemmy.world/c/faceting )
I think it would be good to have a separate summer vs winter community.
Possibly, I don’t really know. My other thought is that the back country skiing subreddit was always kinda small and with the smaller number of people on Lemmy, its probably even smaller.
Its hard to get communities going initially so if broadening the topic helps, I’m for it.
Which sub were you thinking about specifically out of curiosity?
I created it to replace the /r/backcountry subreddit which was also skiing and snowborading. Perhaps it makes sense to broaden the scope a bit since the lemmy community is small. I could reasonably moderate hiking and camping stuff as well.
I will make a post over there asking people what they are interested in.
Its somewhat related, yes. Each time you do something in the web browser like upvote, that gets sent to your instance (e.g. lemmy.world). Then, the instance needs to update the other instances with that action (this is called publishing the action). Meanwhile, it needs to accept actions from other instances (these are actions that the server is subscribed to). All of these actions take server time and network so there is a queue of actions (think of this as each action standing in line waiting for its turn with the network/cpu).
You can optimize this a lot because each time you open a network connection and send something, there is some cpu and network cost above and beyond the action itself. So there are smart ways to group things together. But, the challenge is that such grouping adds delays (e.g. it may take longer for a moderator’s removal of an offending comment to propagate to your server).
I created a community based on one of my hobbies to end my lurking habit: https://lemmy.world/c/backcountry
For now, I am just posting about one photo a day from my collection with some text that tries to drive interaction. There are 15 people in the community so I am hoping things start expanding at some point. All it costs me is a few minutes a day to choose and post a photo.
They are actively working on improving the performance. Large distributed systems aren’t the easiest thing to build and scale. E.g. here is where they are working on improving the compute time required to handle upvoting:
Back in my day, our comments deleted themselves when the IRC or email server failed…
Come to think of it, what happens if an instance fails with Lemmy and there isn’t a backup?
+1 on a Google replacement/enhancement. I used the site:reddit.com trick all the time on Google and it made results so much better. I am hoping that Lemmy can be a high quality open repository of information as Reddit closes things off. Trying my best to help get things going.
Ah that explains it. Someone posted a cool photo to my community from lemmy.ca but didn’t interact further. Looks like my comment didn’t even show up on their end.
Anyway, thanks to everyone working on the issue. I know these things aren’t easy.