Fedigrow

Following up on this post: feddit.org/post/2379333/1762691

Most frontends (I don’t know any, really) doesn’t allow you to set a default language for your post. For that reason, a lot of frontends allow you to post without any language selected, while defaulting to English. But that is not universally true. Photon recently started requiring language to be selected and started defaulting to Undetermined language. This now creates unnecessary friction when the community doesn’t have it as allowed language and requires the user to select allowed language for every single post.

The NFL season is about to start and it would be nice to have as many people as possible participating on the communities from nfl.community. Being a topic-specific instance with closed registrations, I’m aware that it is harder to be discovered, so I’m writing here with the intent of both promoting a bit and to find enthusiasts joining in.

Created this thread to keep an eye on this feature as I believe it could have a huge impact on communities visibility

There are various communities for hobbies and projects, but each one is small and difficult to grow. I was thinking of making a general "show everyone what you made" community. It could include

I assume !newcommunities@lemmy.world is for just that, and promoting new instances is unacceptable there. Where is an appropriate place to advertise a new instance?

Question sparked after seeing the post about unmarked llm bots.

Saw a suspicious post resurrecting a 5 month old thread, and after a few back and forths:

Hello everyone,

Never been a mod before or anything. I was thinking that if we start getting people of all levels or interests to ask questions. And I would probably later think of doing a secconed community for AMA's any help would be greatly appreciated.

!bunnies@lemmy.world (bunnies@lemmy.world) has one mod who has not touched their account in 11 months. How do I request ownership/mod of the community? Also, is there anywhere to solicit mods from? I mostly want it because I know I am active, and would be interested in turning it over to someone else as soon as I find someone who wants to, and who will keep it actually bunny rabbits instead of turning it into a NSFW for Playboy Bunnies.

I am almost done with the "Community Ambassador" feature on Fediverser and I'd like to get some feedback from members of this community.

So one thing I miss about reddit is the idea that I can just find any random topic, and there's an active sub for that.

Basically, title. I'll list the existing options in the comments, feel free to discuss each of them there

Tried to sort out some communities with icons. Not sure it matters, but it's my deed for the day.

I'd love a Nature is Fucking Lit community over here on Lemmy. I just saw the cutest post on Reddit there and I'd love to spread it or see it over here. (I look at reddit without a profile while at my work computer sometimes, don't judge me lol).

The only successful example I found the other day was https://old.reddit.com/r/FloatingIsFun/, now !FloatingIsFun@fedia.io

Right now on Lemmy we have a bunch of dad-based communities with varying levels of discussion. From the ones I can find, we have:

Modlog visible here: https://lemmy.world/modlog/2

Same logic as for the !dataisbeautiful is another thread, let's discuss a few options in the comments below

I previously posted this topic on the main Star Wars community, but it was removed for being too meta. Which is fair enough but it does leave is in a Catch 22 situation as you can't exactly get a SW instance started if you can't discuss starting one. Fortunately, @blaze@lemm.ee was kind enough to suggest this instance would be a good venue for such discussions, so here we are.

Edit: Update: community is created, !dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz !

!mapporn@lemmy.world has been locked down in favor of !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

We had a few AMA in the past, the most recent one being by a director/actor on !movies@lemm.ee : https://lemm.ee/post/31335226?scrollToComments=true

Link to the graphs: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

One of the advantages of a decentralized platform like Lemmy is the ability to create parallel communities on the same topic. "You don't like how a community is being moderated? Go to another instance and start a new community!" (with or without blackjack and hookers)

A few ideas from the top of my head

Perhaps after some amount of time having announced themselves over in !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca, or...I don't know if there are communities for instances (the fediverse communities, presumably?), but likewise for them?

I’ve searched for older Lemmy posts on Google just to see if they are getting indexed and I don’t think most are? Can anyone else confirm. I think if Lemmy showed up in more google searches like Reddit it would bring new users

I'm not gonna lie, sometimes it feels a bit lonely. I try to post on a few generic communities - !interestingasfuck@lemm.ee - !casualconversation@lemmy.world - !movies@lemm.ee - !lego@lemmy.world - !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz - !comicbooks@lemmy.world - !avatar@lemmy.world

Probably a very polarizing question.

I noticed the new betas have the ability to upload video clips. I think this has been a huge missing feature that Reddit and other social media platforms have

Small post to ping a few people who might have interesting insight on the questions discussed in this community.

When you look at https://beehaw.org/communities, you can see that there are only a few communities, but they are diverse enough to cover most of the topics you would have to discuss on the Internet.

I'm mostly thinking about LW communities where nobody posts but which have active counterparts on other instances