Simple: subscribe to both. Ever seen how many /r/trueX subreddits there are (where X is any popular subreddit)? That's basically what's going on here.
Barbarian
joined 2 years ago
Users are likely going to see this as it's the "official" Lemmy instance when trying to join for the first time.
Any admins of instances that are accepting people, give your best elevator pitch!
Unfortunately, flairs aren't implemented yet. It's in the GitHub issues, but considering Lemmy just grew 12-fold overnight, they're obviously focusing on optimization :))
I upvoted and chuckled, but please use Imgur or similar links while the entire ecosystem is being hit by the Reddit hug of death :)
If you're the first person to subscribe to a community from your server, what you need to do is go to the community search, switch from "Communities" to "All", then paste in the full URL (https://lemmy.ml/c/worldbuilding)
I know it's not great, but keep in mind that Lemmy just increased their userbase by 12-fold overnight and it's a 2-man dev team. This isn't some glossy corporate product, and there will be teething issues.
You can disable the creation of new communities. If I understand what you want to do correctly (host users but not content), just make an instance, disable community creation, and put a stickied post linking the community finder and explaining that you should add using the full URL of the community
Any user could just put in the full URL of your community to subscribe like I did, but this is a tumultuous time. Just trying to make things as easy as possible for the torrent of new users coming in :)
Completely agree. I'll be ecstatic if Lemmy hits the point where it's self-sustaining. It doesn't need to attract millions, but it needs enough active engaged users to post and comment so that there's enough interesting shit here
Subscribed to pull your community into lemmy.ml, should show up if anyone searches for 3D printing now
They are credited with taking down wolfballs
I found it in your link, thanks. Jesus. I think lemmygrad deserves a medal for that if this post is representative of that community.
Lemme give you 2 scenarios to explain why defederation is an important option:
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An instance with views and forms of diacourse wholly incompatible with yours. As a hyperbolic silly example to illustrate, let's say there's a community of cultists who believe in Cthulhu. They encourage a steady diet of kidnapped babies, and ritual drownings. They brigade like crazy, and their moderators encourage them to do this. Anybody who doesn't follow the great old one is an idiot, an asshole, and they express this in extremely vulgar terms. If they were a reddit community, they'd get banned. Here, they get isolated to their own little corner where they can't scream obscenities at people.
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An instance with thousands of bots spamming out innocuous looking links that lead to malware. Again, if they were a reddit bot farm, (hopefully) they'd be banned. Here, as it's an open source project and you can't restrict who uses it and for what, defederation is the best you can do.
Lemmygrad seems to be a bit of a target of defederation by many instances, and there's probably some history there that I'm not aware of as I'm also new to Lemmy. Even though I may not agree with some of their hardline views, the users seem to be respectful when commenting over here on lemmy.ml, and the very few times I've commented over there, they've been cool. Consequently, I'm glad lemmy.ml federates with them.
EDIT: I should probably state that even though I'm cool talking with the respectful users, had to block a few communities there. I don't want to see the Death to NATO community cheerleading the Russian invasion, for example.
I'm a massive fan of Paradox Interactive, and play almost all their stuff. Crusader Kings 3, Victoria 3, Hearts of Iron 4 and Stellaris (in that order).