FrostBlazer

Speaking ill of someone not present to defend themselves is commonly in bad tastes, imo. Commonality of occurrence certainly doesn’t make it any less wrongful. I don’t think it’s a gender specific issue based on the story being about guys doing this.

If you’re reading fan translations then BakaUpdates is what I would recommend using since it follows the release of scanlators. I believe many scanlators themselves are using some form of email blast or RSS announcement of new chapters as well. I don’t doubt some use something like Discord to announce releases, but that’s not a preferred method for me to hear about releases. You’re welcome!

Beans you say?

Everything still feels fairly new to me, but I feel it’s great for things you know you’re interested in. In terms of discovery though I feel there isn’t an integrated tool to encounter new stuff you’d like necessarily. I like music for instance, I went out of my way to find the music I like. Now finding a subgenre I could like, but haven’t heard about yet, would be more difficult since there’s not an algorithm recommending it to me. I feel that’s all the more reason to spread the things we like through word of mouth. Organic growth is the heart of this type of medium after all.

Smaller communities do have it harder at first, there’s no guarantee your intended audience encounters the content you’re sharing after all. Although there could be a huge audience, but not a lot of posters. I’ve seen a mix of both of these cases so far. You can tell the interest is there since there’s may be a several dozen people subscribed to an instance no one has posted in ever or for months. Although I’m sure if activity happens again, people would be happy to engage with those interests.

That’s a good question. I imagine the publisher’s office would have updates listed for serialized manga. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is an RSS feed or something similar out there for official updates. I think sites like MyAnimeList would list official releases. I use BakaUpdates, but that’s not following the serialized release schedule. I hope this helps!

Imagine going over to someone’s house and they bust these bad boys out for you to enjoy a bowl of vanilla ice cream.

With time we’ll get there! The more we slowly contribute to the niche topics, the more we’ll see these communities grow. I’m sure there are a sizable amount of people from Reddit looking for their niches on here to start growing more for them to fully hop over. I’ve got a good chunk of mine on Lemmy now, but still a handful of ones I haven’t found a comparable server for yet. If I understood running a server more I probably would have started a couple of my own for these topics.

Is there anywhere on Lemmy people can request for servers to get started? I think that would be helpful to have since missing topics are some of the barriers of entry for some people.

It definitely does, I tried my best for months, but it didn’t make enough of a difference unfortunately. It does makes sense that so many are struggling. If it was just online problems then that would be one thing, but people are trying to have their basic needs met which further causes problems.

I think blocking is important, if you’ve responded to their misinformation and they move the goalposts, I would call them out on it and then block them right then. That’s a great question, I haven’t been here long enough to personally, there might not be a cap though since I couldn’t find a reference to one upon my searches.

Did they change the way things are formatted? Such as the [removed] comments now just appearing as [deleted]? Deleted would imply the users removed their own content while removed would imply the mods or admins removed it, at least that’s how things have always been. However, I have only been seeing a sea of [deleted] lately.

I feel like the admins over there really take for granted how much people care about Reddit. The more they degrade the sense of community, the more it continues to crumble until users feel that there’s no point in going back.

With how many posts are just pure AI generated rage bait, it’s becoming more clear by the day how little worth there is left on Reddit.

It’s not all one country doing it either, although they are one of the largest players. Intelligence networks and private citizens from multiple countries and backgrounds have bot farms and have bad actors sowing division online. I’ve noticed that IRL is nowhere near as polarizing as online is framed, even with the most staunch people on the extremes that I know.

What sucks is that all of what some of these bots and bad actors do all day every day is post their same tired points, in different threads and communities. It’s like playing whack-a-mole trying to respond to all of the misinformation. They want to exhaust the people trying to refute them and control the narrative by parroting the same debunked misinformation over and over again. They won’t even defend their points, but move onto some other thing for you to have to debunk.

I think the answer is to be a poster that sets the message from the start, not get caught in the weeds of their bad faith discussions, and pressing them for a change on failures of their argument rather than just defending your own points. They appear to have a stronger frame of view since they are always on the attack in arguments, flipping the script makes their arguments crumble since they can’t defend them.

Reddit removes all the time, but they shadow remove so you never get a notification or anything.