DrNeurohax

Golems (singular Lems)

Because...
If you part it to the Left, it's Not Right.
If you part it to the Right, it's Wrong.
Not Right = Wrong
So, Left must = Right.

Haha, yeah, maaaaybe a I was a teensy, tiny bit hyperbolic with the numbers, but I did check the weather map to make sure it wasn't too far out there. But, in my defense, do we really count the Dakotas, Montana, and Idaho? We all know they don't exist and are simply giant holes that reach down to the core of the Earth. That removes a big chunk of area from the total size.

How about "golems" - Lems that go/migrate/progress. Singular would be a "Lem".

"I don't mean to spez, but I don't agree..." (I'm not trying to be an asshole, but...)

"Lemmy say..." (my opinion is...)

"And L'Emmy for best performance goes to..." (praise a good comment)

"Let me provide a cool glass of Lemmy-aid for you." (I'm giving a friendly bit of unsolicited advice.)

"Quite the CaLemmyTea!" (A big disagreement or negative event (catastrophe) that ended in a surprisingly civil way (like over a good cup of tea.))

I mean, really? That's the turd time I've seen this mentioned today!

There were a bunch of initial shitlords that tried making roads into here a few weeks back, but they were quickly shouted down. A few defederations later and things have been smooth.

As for the Lemmy devs, there are some screenshots of nasty tankie comments floating around, but I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt for now because they have been very involved with keeping things civil and came out publicly against their past statements. I think a bunch of us effectively argued with one of them that letting that shit in during the initial growth in general public instances was a platform-killer (lots of mentions of the "Tolerance of Intolerance Paradox" and the "nazi bar story"). A T_D popped up for an hour or two and was quickly pushed out. They can make their own little microcosm somewhere else.

I've seen a few douchebags pop up here and there, but not enough to worry me. Though, I hear the politics mags might have more trouble than the comment threads I frequent.

You didn't have to say you're new - the fact that you thought you could get banned for that post screams it! That's the good ole Reddit PTSD. Folks are more chill and friendly here. Also, maybe 5 people fully understand the system, so we're all learning.

One little bug that I think makes this whole situation more confusing is that not interacting with a thread for long enough (opening several tabs, walking away while ready comments, etc.), your browser could stop updating the state of the page. When you go to subscribe or comment or vote, you get hit with one of two errors. I had assumed that was part of this whole who-can-talk-to-who fediverse confusion. It's not. It's just a bug you can get around by refreshing the page.

As for combining posts, that's something in the works, but there's no karma and most people I've come across don't give two shits about the various bugged equivalents. If you're going to submit a post, check to see if it's already already being talked about on another instance. There's no etiquette for how to handle that yet, so I think it might make sense to just post a link to the federated post that that people in that subscribed magazine/community get directed to the larger discussion. Or maybe do this and say you want to talk about some specific aspect more.

And yes, there's lots under construction here, but nobody was prepared for this deluge. Seriously, from ~3,500 users between kbin and lemmy to ~2 million now. We know that the devs are hard at work, so it isn't like it's an abandoned project. But, I'll take this community over Reddit's any day.

Correct. Also, in Lemmy "magazines" are "communities".

I would agree if 1/4 of the country wasn't covered in a fog equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes while another 1/4 is getting 115F temps. We had to wear masks a couple days ago... outside. When the 80 year old weatherman-for-life on the news says he's never seen anything like this, you know it's bad. I wasn't paying attention to the weather and was confused a week ago when I went outside and everything smelled like a delightful campfire but there was no visible smoke.

And folks aren't at the stores. I had to grab a few 4th of July things today and went to Costco and Target. I was 1 of maybe 10 people in both. On a normal Saturday, even during rainstorms and blizzards, there are usually 15-20 minute lines at checkout with all registers open. I walked right up to the register and only half were open.

So people are either traveling or stuck inside, both prime mobile Reddit conditions.

A modern day Trading Places.

"Mortimer, I bet this little pig boy nerd can run a social media giant into the ground in 1 month."
"Well, I think that's only possible with a rich tech snob at the helm, and even then it would take him 6 months!"
"The usual bet?"
"$1"

Same. I think we need some way to coordinate the initial burst of content for some of the smaller subs. I hate to say it, but maybe we need to assign "homework" - Request (not require) new subscribers to contribute unique stories or info relevant to the mag/comm on some type of schedule.

Something like:
"As we try to grow this new community, we want to hear from you. We're asking (not requiring) all new subscribers to start a new post within their first week covering some aspect of the topic they find personally interesting or that they feel could help others. Just add "(1P)" to the title of the post. It doesn't matter if it's something you said elsewhere, if you're new to the entire topic and just want to post a bunch of questions, you have a funny story to tell, or have a super niche specialty.

Also, we should consider having more moderator-level users in subs to reduce the burden of moderation. It's more daunting if you're asked to be one of 3 mods than it is to be one of 15. We should also look into incentivizing moderation duties, but there's probably a much longer discussion to be had about that.