What’s wrong with subscribing to both? Then you’d have both in your feed; you wouldn’t have to go anywhere.

But yeah we also wanted to make sure to get the name in a couple of places. Didn’t expect our resignation letters & whatnot to go a bit more public and get influxes of users and all.

I do think it would be beneficial if there was a way to have “super communities” or “sub-federation,” where communities with similar topics can opt in to the feature. Thus if a person subscribes to one of the communities with that feature, other communities with similar topics will appear in that thread.

Ultimately, this would retain decentralization while increasing community discovery, which is a benefit to end-users.

But the point is to have different people in charge in case anyone gets full of themselves. See: reddit

It’s still lacking the collapse a comment ability! I am like when are they going to fix that?

But it’s a much much newer instance. We’ll see, but I think it has potential.

There’s a quote from them further up someone posted. They just weren’t 100% sold on any site because they said neither quite fit what they wanted. So they started up two to see how they develop and which they prefer down the line.

Yeah, I really hate the fragmentation because of that. Reddit admittedly had this problem too, but it didn’t feel like the same degree.

I think it also is a barrier to growing a community because it can sometimes take some time for it to be clear which community is the biggest one. To avoid duplication, I usually only join the biggest community of each “type” and it’s not always obvious which one that is.

I mean… Idk why… but I love it… imagining you pulling your hair out trying to troubleshoot this… haha…

Been there done that…

Cheers mate!

Damn, that’s nice - what a cool mod

That’s fine. Bound to happen sooner or later with other users anyway. Next time when the mod debug a similar issue, they’ll remember to ask the user to deactivate extensions first.

Give him some money

Exactly this, yeah. Doing a little debugging.

Your user name would have been a fun notification to receive while troubleshooting ahaaha

I’m still learning transcription so feedback for what works and what doesn’t will be helpful!

True, but it got people (eg me) started on actually looking for alternatives.

Not being very tech savvy, the reddit summaries post backout helped alot too.

Get your account banned, boom, comments gone. If you want to cause additional pain GDPR request on your banned account every 30 days. They still have to comply with requests as long as they hold your data. Make them work even though you don’t use the site.

On a couple I saw my name deleted but not the comment. I assumed it was sluggishness or something. I didn’t have much to delete even though I’d been there 12? years so I’m not going to… oh, also deleted account(s) so guess whatever they do is in their hands now anyway.

I’ve gone full soapbox preacher on federation of late, but it almost feels like trying to explain the internet to someone without a computer in 1998. It’s amazing the amount of people who have said stuff like

“Yeah but YouTube can’t just do whatever they want on the platform…”

Hopefully Threads will be the wake up call for the masses.

If an instance owner could think of imaginative ways of funding or if Lemmy adds things like purchasable awards for funding (I know… I can hear everyone’s eyes roll collectively) then Instances could even pay moderators if they really wanted to.

Lemmy can be whatever it wants to be.

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Just another dramatard on the fediverse

Brother, you’re trolling while talking Chan - maybe hop offline for a bit.

You mean for this specific case? Yes, they’re two separate communities which is why it was disadvantageous to create a community on both kbin and Lemmy—if they made just one, that one community could share subscribers and comments and such from all Lemmy instances (that aren’t defederated) as well as kbin. They didn’t need to make separate accidentalrenaissance communities but they did.

I’m not a fan of the e-mail analogy overall, but here it works. It’s like they created a gmail account and an aol account, thinking only gmail accounts could email each other and only aol accounts could email each other. But really, if they made only a gmail account then both gmail and aol would be able to communicate easily.

One mod team working on two communities. We may consolidate to one or the other at a later date.

We were honestly afraid that either Lemmy or Kbin would self-destruct so we wanted to have one to fall back on and we weren’t happy with how either handled images.

What discourages people to join is not knowing which instance to join. Which is exactly how we got two communities branching off like this.

What discourages people from joining is acting like “federation Yay” is actually a selling point instead of a nuisance that you have to accept. Just look at the downvotes this got in minutes. How is that encouraging?

Because it actually does make a difference an dthats why they started two communities on different instances.

To what end? The more spread out they are the less engagement they have and the sub flounders. Look at what happened to r/android. Went from being one of the largest communities on lemmy.world to puttering along on their new instance, losing a good chunk of users back to Reddit where everything is simple and in one place.

This “smaller instance” has 6000 users and predates lemmy.world by 6 months.

Betamax was the better play versus VHS, but we all know how that ended.

In social gatherings people will want to gather in the same place, and then maybe break off into smaller groups for more precise social interactions. That’s kind of the standard normal human thing.

The problem with Federation is it doesn’t honor that. It has everyone create small specific social gatherings on their own, and then having someone from each small gallery run between the different social gathering groups to share what each other is saying

I get on paper how Federation is the best way to go, and I do agree with that. The problem is the human population kind of want all people to all gather in one place, and not try to figure out where they have to gather at.

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So long as no ones judging. Sometimes you just want to wrap your lips around the hot tailpipe while the engines running and you drop your ass like you’re trying to commit a one-person mass extinction event on a dildo.

It’s my auto-erotic ass fixation.

Dragons?

I remember them cheering on whoever was stabbing suv tires in the UK a few years ago. They were hoping for it to spread to other countries regardless of the circumstances of the vehicle owner. I don’t know if the community has cleaned up since then.

Is it hippie shit to want a pleasant community and easy way to get around?

It doesn’t benefit those with cars as much as it forces you to get a car to benefit. Cities that don’t focus as much on car centric infrastructure are more pleasant to drive through.

You’re conflating cars with transportation in general. When I say car infrastructure, I don’t mean close every road off so nobody gets in or out. Nobody does.

Look at cities where they prioritize the pedestrian and public transport. They’re so much better to live in and get around.

Til community didn’t exist before Ford’s invention.

Simply isn’t true. Look up some YouTube videos of Amsterdam’s transport system. Biking and walking is faster than using a car because of the way they designed the city. And people aren’t “stacked on top of each other” any more or less than cities in the US where there is much heavier traffic.

After WW2 US wanted to increase industrial base so we invested heavily in cars. Highways everywhere and spread out suburbs.

It made sense at the time but now we see nearly 50,000 dead annually and millions stuck in traffic at any one time. We’re selling out our citizens for a little extra $$$.

There is another way. We can still have cars but cars don’t need to be the priority in terms of transportation systems. Biking to work in 5 to 10 minutes is 100x better than sitting in traffic for 45.

I take a train to the city, and I bike to the station whenever I need to go into the office. The amount of disabled folk I see that could not transport themselves otherwise because a car is requisite would shock you.

The point of their community is improving public transport so it isn’t as car centric and a requirement to participate society.

I don’t see exactly how that’s “commie” to strive for a more democratic society.