Thanks I hate it.
FrostyTrichs
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Welcome!
You may already have it handled but just in case here's a post with some resources to help you find communities and migrate from reddit. I hope you find Lemmy more to your liking!
There's a placeholder for it in the game already so hopefully they have more plans than just profits. I suppose that could just be a dangling carrot too.
Completely understand. Glad it's working for you!
Thanks!
Does it feel worthwhile after the grind?
I'd say so, yes. I did the whole thing with a dark deck that I adapted as I unlocked cards so it was very satisfying to get each win. I'd do it over again for sure.
Tough losses can suck but those long battles can be really fun too. I'd rather lose after a long match instead of those miracle draws that knock you out on turn 3 or something.
That sounds like a much better implementation of community discovery.
And that's fine for you, I'm not knocking the experimenting and learning process. That was the whole reason I spun up an instance myself.
What I'm saying is that to the other users that would be impacted by these things, it sucks. People are patient to a point but the fediverse has a lot of odd quirks that make it more difficult than it should be to use for a lot of people. Things have gotten better in the last year or so but it still feels like we're asking people to know more than they should have to just to figure out that Lemmy isn't empty. Many people will get frustrated and leave long before they start making excuses for a site they don't know anything about.
It's easy to sit around proclaiming that reddit sucks but the fact of the matter is that it's easy to use and everything they have to offer is covered under one domain. Again, I don't have the solution to these things for Lemmy, but we can't deny that this platform is harder to use than most and a lot of people aren't going to handle that well.
Maybe.
But I'd counter that it's prohibitive to growth. People aren't used to turning up at a domain name only to find out 90% of the content can't be accessed without jumping through a bunch of hoops.
you can always defederate if an instance starts abusing it
Sure, but potentially after at least one of the instances subscribed to the bot goes down and someone realizes what's happening. It's incredibly easy to overwhelm a small server's database just by subscribing to a lot of communities the normal way. The difference here is potentially any instance federating the bot in both directions is susceptible to this.
Not that much different to the normal flow, really.
The impact across the fediverse vs just one instance would be the main difference. Plenty of people are using that bot having no real idea of what it's doing.
But this is only true if the user looks at the All feed
It impacts what content is available to users at all. The All feed is just the visual representation of what's actively federating.
Let's say you join a new instance for whatever reason with no outside awareness of how the fediverse works. If you try to search the instance for "sportball" and get zero results the natural assumption is going to be that there are no communities and no interest in that topic. The user has no idea that lemmyserver5000.com has a sportball community with thousands of users because no one with those interests ever did the work to get the content flowing in a way that they could access it intuitively. It's a poor design IMO.
The reason I brought it up has more to do with starting a new instance or using a smaller instance. Communities that the instance isn't aware of (via someone previously subscribing) won't show up at all which causes places to appear non-existent or dead by default. Someone trying a federating website for the first time isn't going to know this, so to them, that's all the fediverse has to offer.
LMAO