AI Lurker Defense.scm

It’s a little jank. There is https://browse.feddit.de/ to help you find communities though!

Welcome!

People know what they’re doing?

Sometimes understanding how to cross instances can still be a bit cumbersome though.

There is pretty cool support for relative links though! As long as your instance knows of a community, they’ll work.

• [gaming@beehaw.org](/c/gaming@beehaw.org)
• gaming@beehaw.org

And if your instance doesn’t know a certain instance exists, you just have to paste the url into your search bar to get it working: https://beehaw.org/c/gaming

No worries! Finding information about communities and whatnot can be a process of just stumbling upon the right comment

I remember in like… 2009? and maybe for a few years after. Someone started that christmas tradition where they would just open a shared drive and people dumped tons of stuff into it.

I believe it is!

There are a few places with more complete information of every instance. I have this one on hand:

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/

In the age of endless uploads everywhere, we all forgot that hosting large files for many people is not always easy!

I think of those early 00 stories in the time before we called content creators, content creators. Too many people visiting their self hosted videos was a bad thing that would end up costing more money than they made!

I wonder if pdub ever did his homework?

Each instance is pretty customizable. Admins can disable things like image uploads and with so many people joining I could see why. Hosting all that could easily get expensive!

It felt a bit off at first to not have the top comments all be the ones with the most votes, but I like how it works on lemmy after spending time here.

You can join an old thread and not feel like it’s pointless to add to the discussion!

Aaah! So more like twitter or masto. I guess that could be useful for something?

Thanks et merci! I’m happy to call sh.itjust.works my new home 🎉

There’s nothing really stopping people from creating an non-federalized instance that would essentially be an old school forum. There was a pretty crazy lemmy frontend thing I saw that brings it all full circle too.

Lemmy as a phpBB forum: https://fedibb.ml/

I definitely have nostalgia for it too! But as with all memories it can be hard to separate what’s me missing being younger and what’s me missing how things were back then.

That brought back some old memories. Most forums had that kind of implicit rule. You were meant to see how people posting and learn how to fit in.

I’m glad there are more internet communities open to people expressing themselves however they want, emphasizing mutual respect rather than fitting in.

Lemmings

I like the idea of both places existing and thriving. As people come over, I think people are struggling to see both lemmy and kbin as being two things that can work together rather than competitors.

I’m currently trying to figure out how exactly to subscribe to kbin magazines from lemmy though. It seems like I shoud just be able to search the url and it would show up, but that’s not happening.

Is there something else I should be doing?

edit: I think it might be because kbin went down when I wanted to try figuring this out 😂 edit2: kbin back up and searching the url still isn’t working. edit3: success! I changed nothing and it suddenly worked 🎉

I think many people were looking for a reason to leave but kind of felt stuck seeing all the alternatives being either dead or abrasive.

Lemmy seems to have captured the soul of what a significant portion of people have already been looking for.