Content jacking and top posting other people's content is really bad for Lemmy. It's also just being a dick to other people making content on the platform.

• feed is spammy
• divides conversation
• chills engagement
• makes Lemmy less friendly to posters

This pattern is very common on lemmy, and needs to stop.

This is often used to attack or force migrate conversations from a instance someone doesn't like to another instance they do like. It's offensive by its very nature.

If you want to make a better community, great, do it but not at the expense of other Lemmy posters.

[email protected]:

• 692 users / month
• 878 subscribers
• active mods

[email protected]:

• 445 users / month
• 196 subscribers
• inactive mod

I would suggest to consolidate to the first one, open for discussion.

Post mostly spawned because whenever I see games that fit various video game genre communities, I try to post it there, and when I hit a strategy game I end up crossposting to lots of different places.

There are two general strategy communities, and some for more specific subgenres. I think it'd be nice to fold the subgenres into a bigger community for now just due to the smaller size of Lemmy so all the strategy fans can talk and see each others' posts instead of sectioned-off isolated folks screaming into the void, but I'm also not a big strategy game buff and I'd rather the people who play them more have a bigger say, hence this post. Besides, if subgenre fans tend to stick to that subgenre and don't bother too much with other things in the overall strategy genre, there is probably a good reason to keep them separate.

We have the big [email protected], allowing what seems to be anything in the strategy genre, with the last two pages of posts being mostly from @AgentKaryo@lemmy

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/39495259

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=shittyaskscience

No duplicate community currently exists on another instance, so we have free range. Any suggestions?

Hey all! WomensStuff has moved from lazysoci.al to [email protected] We're a trans+ inclusive women only community for all things women including fashion, feminism and general female chat.

Sometimes you want to make a post for a community but don't want to reach the ALL audience (niche or controversial communities). Here is a pseudo workaround to achieve this.

• Make a post
• Immediately delete the post
• Wait 12-24 hours
• Undelete the post

The post will appear in the community at the original creation time and not the undelete time. This avoids the bulk of people who browse all by new (since it will be buried 12 hours in the past). Subscribers will still see the post in their feed

So we have A (aussie.zone) H (hackertalks.com) S (slrpnk.net) and D (dubvee.org)

• UserS is banned from dubvee.org but not the community
• UserS respond to a post from H, and H and A see this comment
• D does not see UserS's comment (makes sense, since they were banned).
• S has no community subscribers
• S does not see H, or A's response to UserS's comment

• 2 - Why does A see UserS's comment at all?
• 3 - Why doesn't S see A's response, or H's response to the comment? No local subscribers?

TL;DR: Integrity, or instance identity, and outreach are both important to help federated online spaces to continue to exist.

This is meant as a kind of complementary piece to sabreW4K3's post, Why Integrity Matters (link to thread on their home instance).

I'm writing this as I don't entirely agree with, nor disagree with them, and want to provide another perspective.

Integrity, or as I see it, instance identity, does matter insofar as one wants to build a distinct community that anyone cares about. At the same time, online communities typically aren't self-sustaining in the same ways offline communities can be. Online communities benefit from both integrity and outreach to sustain themselves.

Lemm.ee going offline soon is as much an indicator of this as anything. Calls for additional admins to help offset burnout went unanswered, and while there are many reasons for this, one among those may be as simple as insufficient interest

Yesterday me and Blaze had a bit of a back and forth and upon review I had some thoughts.

Let me state first and foremost, I adore Blaze and his contributions to the threadiverse. I think he makes the threadiverse a better place with his presence alone.

That said, when we were arguing I had a few problems. But the biggest and most pertinent was that I felt he was chasing Redditors.

I can't speak for everyone, but I chose Lemmy. Since I got here, I have put my fair share into making this place everything I want it to be. Whether that's conducting myself properly or whether it's trying to engage or provide a platform for engagement.

One thing I really don't want Lemmy to be is Reddit. I engage on here far more than I ever did on Reddit. I have a perfectly curated timeline which is the perfect mix of news, entertainment, enlightenment and conversation. I want Lemmy to remain Lemmy.

Lemmy works for me and my mental health. The way Lemmy is set-up, I relish the fact that I can discuss

Posted this over at [email protected] and it was suggested I put it here too.

I've been working on a guide to getting started on Lemmy. What do you think I should add?

Original introduction - https://lemmy.world/post/28787892

https://blog.gregtech.eu/posts/lemvotes/

https://lemvotes.org/

I think this is great tool to identify vote manipulation accounts.

Thanks @[email protected] for making me aware of this.

And thank you @[email protected] for developing it.

Just be aware it lists all downvotes first

I made a piefed community for catgirls any other critters: [email protected]

I am following the piefed guide on moving communities in order to move [email protected], but I can't figure how to lock the community?

One would think this would self evident, but I can't see anything in the UI.

Hey all, I'm the new mod of [email protected] and I'm hoping to grow the community. I'm gonna try mixing things up as well with wholesome questions and things like that.

Please pop in and say hi we'd love to see you!