Uh oh… Forgot about that! Please don’t tell Secreta Secretorum officials!!

Welp, was good while it lasted.

I played it, enjoyed it, and had no idea what the hell is going on.

It was fun because I went in with the expectation that it’s bizarre and has a certain cult classic reputation.

Well, atleast they explained how they “fixed” the problem.

Got to love those “all good, problem solved/went away” - posted 5 years ago

Sounds like !casualconversation@lemm.ee might be a nice community to post this question to as well :)

Isn’t that very country/culture/field specific?

I vote for the dang trees. I like trees.

Will do! :)

Just wanted to comment about that awesome instance name! Cool community too :)

Instance administration is also quite time consuming and is also based on volunteer work.

The vast majority of content on lemmy will be inaccessible to an instance who is under complete anarchy / unmodded.

There is the fediseer project that helps instances block such instances.

If you spin up an LLM farm instance it’s guaranteed to be blocked in many of the big ones - making your instance a lone island.

It’s your instance (lemmings.world) admin.

This… This is how fediverse works though… You are also on an instance run basically entirely on volunteer work.

If “we quit” there is no fediverse. On top of it all moderation tools are not mature enough yet.

You’d rather have your data scraped and sold? Or pay to use a platform like this?

Please don’t create a bot account that is not flagged as a bot. There is enough malicious activity that you might not see because mods/admins are doing their job.

There is no need to increase the volunteer work these people do.

I’ve also been looking at FP but I believe there are some issues of getting one outside of Europe.

True, and also it will make it feel less like “lemmy is dead” to new comers (something we have heard time and time again from people who are new to the fediverse) because they accidentally found the one community that was dead. It’s easier to point them to “our version” of a community they are looking for.

Even in moderately popular communities the posting frequency is quite low compared to what some people are used to. For me personally I actually like the activity level of lemmy, but we need more people to account for comings and goings of users to be able to sustain communities on the long run.

I’ve had this discussion before and the conclusion was:

Keep it as general as possible. Lemmy is still growing and small and a niche community looks often dead.

Once the community becomes too big it’s easier to split the community into more specific communities.

For example: we have quite a few communities about learning a specific language and they all seem inactive, so we are keeping a general community up (!languagelearning@sopuli.xyz) but don’t limit the content to anything specific. You can ask generally about languages, learning, or a specific language and you are more likely to get an answer from others than if you go to a language specific community.

Once it’s too big it will be easy for an active group of people to move to, say, !japaneselanguage@sopuli.xyz or something.

So, in short: start with a general community :)

I’m sorry I can’t recommend any factful books, but the old fictional “Fahrenheit 451” is kind about that and I can recommend.

In case you don’t know it: It’s about a fictional alternative timeline of US where books have been banned and the protagonist is a guy who is part of the system of eradicating those “remaining, filthy and evil books”. In this timeline the term “Firemen” has become the opposite of what you know as Firemen, although the protocol and equipment is similar.

My absolute all time favourite sci-fi book series is John Scalzi’s “Old Man’s War”.

I can’t recommend this book series enough. Kept me up several nights because I couldn’t stop reading (and suffered for it at work).

Scalzi added a lot of humor too and it’s brilliant.

I believe many instances defederate lemmynsfw.com simply because instance admins don’t want that legal responsibility and don’t have tools to keep an eye on it.

It’s been there for quite a long time though, just incase people here were not aware.

I actually like that idea! (As a non-dbzer0 user). But a separate community might be too much at this point considering no one has made a comment about it. How about posts in this community with a specific “tag”? [MEGATHREAD] or something?

Just my two cents added to your suggestion.