Hmm, sounds like a good point. Here’s my sub:
https://lemm.ee/c/eurographicnovels

Can you tell me how our formatting might be messing search engines and stuff…?

(unlike Reddit, for example)

I use bold and italic a lot in post titles. Some of the other stuff wouldn’t make much sense I don’t think, but every little bit helps.

The Lemmysphere sure seems to get slammed a lot at places like r/RedditAlternatives. I wonder if possibly some of that is sockpuppet-stuff, as unlikely as that sounds. Still, more than ever we live in the age of misinformation and manipulation by opposition groups & monied interests, so the idea & practice is certainly on the table.

Unfortunately, there’s also the reputation of at least one of the primary Lemmy coders. Seems like the sooner Kbin, Mastodon, etc can get better integrated, the less notable that should be. *knock on wood*

Just make a community. Build it, they will come.

This is exactly what I’ve done, but I must say that in the particular community’s case, it hasn’t been easy. We’re going on 1.5yrs now, 900+ subscribers, and I’ve personally contributed ~360 posts (most of them curated mini-articles) out of 466 total posts, yet the sub still essentially needs me to provide the content.

So IME, niche-type subs can take a hell of a lot of work to take off, and we’re not even that much of a niche.

Haha, right…

So a load of wishful geniuses & wannabe comedians commenting here, but where’s someone like Sam Kinison to scream OHHHHHH!!!??

(oh, that’s right)

Gourmet potato chips

Yet without the key prep-work that makes good chips and french fries taste so great. In other words, standard-recipe Hassleback doesn’t include the classic 2-3 steps of getting the starch out via cold water baths before cooking. Do that, and I bet this tastes worlds better.

This would also work well in an air-fryer, I think. You’d brush lightly with oil of choice, cooking a few minutes, turn upside down, re-brush and re-cook until eventually done to preference. That way you’d get a nice even bake.

I do something similar with spiralised potatoes, and they taste great. The cold-water baths are certainly some extra work, but if you do several taters at once I think it works out pretty well.

@Krudler@lemmy.world

Fair, late-stage capitalism points. Of the two excellent channels I mentioned, I believe one monetizes by YT, and one by Patreon, but I think the latter method is indeed more popular now, perhaps for the reasons you mentioned.

Everyone should have left, yes, but considering how enormous YT’s storage and bandwidth is, I’m not sure how realistic that would have been in terms of single platform. Something like Daily Motion is a nice YT alt, but it probably would have been brought to its knees trying to serve all YT’s content. And/or simply bought out once again by Google or an even worse company, like Yahoo.

In what sense? To me it’s been a pretty awesome source of free music, archived TV, full movies, clips, and lots of impressive channels, like Kurzgesagt and Metatron.

Fascinating. Thank you so much for taking the time to explain! ^^

So when you say “tamaltios,” I presume it’s like “tomatillos?” I also know them as Mexican ground cherries:

https://www.google.com/search?q=mexican+ground+cherries&tbm=isch

SongFacts.com is great. It’s got wiki-like entries on bands and songs, then users add their comments and interpretations below.

Still very active, it seems to me.

I visited Paris some years back, tried to speak in my terrible tourist French whenever possible, and never found a hint of snobbery. I kinda get the impression that visitors with an attitude or who treat the city like an amusement park get the worst of the ‘snobbery.’

@teft@startrek.website

I use glycerin myself, but I’ll have to try vegetable oil next time.

The other thing that greatly helps speed things along is letting the oil / glycerin sit for 5-10min, then following up with an ear syringe full of warm water. Instead of spraying directly ahead, they’re designed to safely spray to the sides, and the agitating motion of the water works well to clear the clog very quickly.

Thanks for sharing that, and to add on, so far I’ve found:

• !art@lemmy.ml
• !drawing@lemmy.world

Both of which specialise in members sharing their own work.

avocado based cream sauce

Oh wow, so that’s a thing, eh?
Gonna try it with Greek yogurt, thanks!

D’oh. I’m subscribed here, see three comments tallied, but can’t actually see the comments.

Anyway, I wanted to ask what the two green sauces / paste are. One seems too dark for guac, and one too light.

I’m a huge iced tea drinker, and recently tried Earl Grey out of little more than pure boredom. It’s good! Whereas hot, the flavor is a little too much for me, when iced and diluted further, it has a really enjoyable floral bouquet, not unlike Constant Comment.

Cannot join lemmy.world.

consider yourself lucky

TBH I’m disappointed by the final release. I thought the fan-version of John’s demo was much better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsfJdtXsokU

I’m also a little non-plussed by the idea that this is, or needs to be, the ‘final’ Beatles song. In fact, there’s scads of material they worked up while still an official group that they decided not to finish up or release. I’ve no doubt some of it’s equal to or better than this John Lennon demo from the late 70’s, which I certainly wouldn’t say is on the level of Free as a Bird nor Real Love. George Harrison hated this song, in fact.

I really like the trending communities; great way to find new communities…

Hmm, I don’t really get that. Most of the time “trending communities” seem to be newly-created communities with little if any content. Considering how common it is for people to grab a community name and sit on it indefinitely, I feel like the ‘trending detection’ formula could be tweaked to display newer communities with solid growth, instead.

…or remind you to look for something you hadn’t thought about.

I salute the spirit of that, but the number of healthy communities across the FV seems pretty limited so far. Sure, it’s not that hard to find ghost communities with search tools (I tend to use this one), but that’s kind of a bittersweet feeling.

In my case I found that creating a community that was missing here, then regularly populating it with content, has worked wonders. That it was not just a good way to get myself engaged here, as well as to grow the Fediverse, but to attract users from Reddit and other places given a bit of cross-posting.

Seriously, I’m not sure how many people understand that right now, given that new content is generated relatively slowly across the FV, that any new community putting quality stuff out there is going to get a *hugely* larger proportion of eyes on it. That’s compared to similar communities on Reddit, FB, etc, in which smaller / newer communities tend to get completely drowned out in the ALL streams.

My own niche community (Euro graphic novels) already has 350+ subscribers in less than 90 days. Even for Reddit that’s a nice jump-start and growth. Which is why I urge people to jump on this opportunity now, because eventually it’s probably going to dry up.

Indeed, maybe it would be good to get this message out to people on Reddit, FB, etc who always wanted to start a sub/community, but the opportunities were ‘all filled up’ already.