As a refugee myself, I'm glad to hear the old ones seem to perceive the influx as mostly exciting and positive. I had some worries some people might not like how the new ones change and overwhelm what's old and dear.
Ah well, maybe it's too early to judge. Maybe you hate us next week? :)
Why is 6 afraid of 7?
I guess the answer depends a lot on how big your scope is. For any given topic, you will find people disagreeing if you look hard or long enough. And simultaneously, almost any topic can be a source of unity for a group of people, if your scope is small enough.
I thought protecting our livelihoods, on which we depend with our very lifes, should be a clear and uncontroversial unifier. But apparently climate change and mass extinction are controversial topics for some people. While at the same time, these topics create some very tight knit communities for other people.
But maybe you are looking for answers like: Music, dancing, sports, humor, shared values, shared experiences.
Everything passes. Including reddit. waves hands this is all just temporary.
Type O Negative - Everything Dies has surprisingly fitting lyrics for the search of people for a place to stay.
A word on reddit, blackouts, & effective protesting: https://piped.video/watch?v=U06rCBIKM5M
As I understand him, announcing a blackout for 2 days is equivalent to reassuring to come back for 363 days despite all that's wrong. Basically signalling "you can do that with me". I feel that interpretation has some truth, but also falls short.
As I understand the blackout, it is a warning shot. Like any political demonstration (and unlike romantic relationships, to which he compares it), it's a show of strength and numbers to both sides. Both participants and recipients can see who else protests, and see how many.
A display of force alone can sway people to either join the protest, or to renegotiate. But those in power can always assume it's a bluff and call it as such by ignoring the protest. Then, it depends on wether the protesting people are willing to follow through. What actual force stands behind that display of force? Are you willing and capable to escalate?
How many subscriptions and subreddits will leave if their demands are not met? And why didn't they leave right away if they don't like it anymore?
I think it's perfectly fine to not escalate to the highest level right away. The intermediate steps are a form of communication and negotiation, and can prevent unecessary harm. But you should be prepared to follow through if the demands are not met, else you signal in fact "you can do that with us".
I joined two days ago, a very small instance simply because I liked the name. And I read recommendations that the choice would not matter, that you can switch later anyways and whatnot.
Turns out, bad choice. Many communities are invisible to me unless I perform some exclamation mark shenanigans which I still don't understand (or another person from my instance does, but since we are so few, that doesn't happen so often).
Links to other instances are broken. For example, when yesterday's megathread was closed due to 500 comments, the mod left a link there to this thread here, I suppose. Because since I'm not from beehaw, the link does not work for me.
So it really comes with convenience and benefits to be part of a big instance, as long as that instance can handle the load. It should not make a difference, but it does. I wish the communication was clearer about that upfront. I'm a nerd and can handle it (for a while), but surely some people would leave again, when experience does not live up to advertisement.
For the best experience, join the instance with the most content you're interested in. Federation is nice in theory, but we're not fully there yet.
It's always better to search first, in my opinion.
If a community is missing, and you don't feel like creating or running it yourself, a next step could be to talk about it. See if others share your interest, and maybe one or more people step up to make it happen.
I don’t know how to view a list of communities in an instance without leaving your home instance.
On lemmy:
This will show you communities matching your search term from all instances*.
You can then subscribe to communities regardless on which instance they live and use them seemlessly, regardless of wether they are local or not.
*) It will show you communities matching your search term from all instances, if your instance has already discovered that community.
If it has not, it shows 'No Results'. You can force it by some exclamation mark shenanigans which I haven't understood well enough to explain. After that, your instance knows about that community in the other instance and will show it in future search results. I think as soon as one person from your instance force-discovers a community from another instance, that community becomes searchable for everyone on your instance.
I don’t really understand the need for ones specific to different english-speaking regions
Makes perfect sense for regional events. This can be anything like weather, disasters, military excercises, cultural or sports events, regional politics, infrastructure projects, astronomy ...
On my local subreddit, I was able to check what that noise was that I just heard, where all the emergency vehicles are racing towards, or follow hilarious regional stories.
Of course, for non-regional topics like music (unless it's a regional event) I'd go to a non-regional sub or community.
Confirmed, that's where I saw your comment, that's where I commented on your comment. I don't know either what happened.
There are maybe 4 or so ‘crawlers’, and the rest buys access to the part of their data they are willing to sell to others.
And then there is Yep. Just Yep.
You fine? Yep. You prefer being alone? Yep.
LOL, nice! The answer I had in mind:
Because seven ate nine.