Following the other thread (550 upvotes and 366 comments at the moment: https://lemmy.world/post/16211417), one of the complaints that people had what that some communities only exist on lemmy.ml and don’t have alternatives on other instances.
Let’s discuss this and see if we can organize together.
I suggest to have one topic per comment so that is is easier to discuss.
Possible alternatives?
- [email protected] (fragile instance?)
- [email protected] (broader than crows)
@[email protected] (prolific poster) and @[email protected] (mod)
Thoughts?
[email protected] and [email protected]
Mods: @[email protected] and @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
Could not find any current alternatives.
Any instance recommendations? Maybe mander.xyz? (@[email protected])
[email protected], currently moderated by @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected].
Could not find any current alternatives.
Any instance recommendations? Maybe programming.dev? Or a maker/craft-oriented instance?
[email protected] and [email protected]
The respective moderators (@[email protected], @[email protected]) have been AWOL for 4 years.
Possible alternative:
- [email protected] (kbin development is fragile?)
Any instance recommendations?
@[email protected], were you able to find any RSS news sources?
I found a couple. I’m saddened that https://selfdrivenews.com doesn’t have an RSS feed though
Jellyfin: [email protected]
Maybe something for https://lemmy.dbzer0.com ?
Wouldn’t https://lemmy.film or https://selfhosted.forum be better? Even https://libretechni.ca
https://libretechni.ca/ is also down on my site, is the site supposed to be up?
It’s back up! 🎉
Oh nice! Only one admin though
Is one admin bad?
Single admin instances are fragile instances. One person is a single point of failure.
But if the primary admin buggers off with the hosting and/or domain, doesn’t that kill all instances?
I think the problem is not so much that “communities don’t exist”, but that they are far less popular and active than the lemmy.ml ones, and when presented with a choice new users will typically choose the community that is more active and has the most subs. You can’t simply solve that by creating another community on another instance. A concerted effort would be needed to get people to move and to get them to pick the alternative community over the lemmy.ml one. Raising awareness and defederation by bigger instances (like lemmy.world) would help immensely.
For me the big ones are [email protected] and [email protected] btw, which do exist elsewhere but the alternatives are stale.
https://programming.dev/c/programmer_humor seems pretty active? Edit: nice link [email protected]
Indeed, it is.
Firefox
[email protected] - 16.8k subscribers
[email protected] - 3.58k subscribers
[email protected] - 1.06k subscribers
I can’t quite decide whether to consolidate LW and Fedia for the community. LW has more subscribers, but Fedia is a little more active.
I’m also thinking of asking active users of [email protected] to post on LW instead.
Fedia.io would be nice. That would be a change and promote Mbin a bit
Sorry if this is a bit off-topic, but I wanted to say that I see you going to such great efforts to help people all across the entire Fediverse, and to say thank you - we appreciate you!:-)
Yeah, Blaze definitely deserves some kind of “threadiverse citizen’s volunteer of the year” award or something.
Thanks!
And happy cake day to you!
Thanks! It seems like a bunch of us have our cake days around this time… what an interesting coincidence! :)
They are always on r/RedditAlternatives steering people towards the Fediverse too, along with a few others. Unfortunately most people there are resistant, and the heavily leftist-leaning nature of the content here turns a lot of people away (many instances including reddthat.com do not block either hexbear.net or lemmygrad.ml by default for new users, so all those posts promoting literal violence against e.g. landlords show up immediately in their All feeds), but it is still awesome to see them trying!:-)
Personally I think the technology will need to be improved first - e.g. adding content labels such as Mastodon already has (and everything else these days except Lemmy) - before we will see wider acceptance, especially since there are a lot of centrists who nonetheless contribute niche content that otherwise will not feel comfortable here and thus remain on Reddit, or a lot of people simply swear off social media altogether. But damn, if we do succeed it will in no small part be due to their constant efforts!:-) 🥰
They are always on r/RedditAlternatives steering people towards the Fediverse too, along with a few others. Unfortunately most people there are resistant, and the heavily leftist-leaning nature of the content here turns a lot of people away (many instances including reddthat.com do not block either hexbear.net or lemmygrad.ml by default for new users, so all those posts promoting literal violence against e.g. landlords show up immediately in their All feeds), but it is still awesome to see them trying!:-)
Yeah, some people there have the worst bad faith I’ve ever seen. Anyway, at least some other people can read the comments and learn about Lemmy.
There could literally be some Reddit shills there, or “useful” people who somehow are still holding on tooth & nail to the Reddit name - some people are just like that - and actually I am glad that those have not migrated over to here, even purely to do trolling:-).
But there are a lot of centrist, middle-of-the-road people, as well as right-leaning people too, who could add their voices here and contribute to the ongoing conversation - b/c not everything is about politics (even if so many people try to turn the conversation towards that here, and I am guilty of that as well; yet gardening, woodworking, knitting, etc. - not everything needs to bring it up consistently).
There is so much that we could do to make this place more “welcoming” for others. And I see you doing that tirelessly, so thanks!:-)
