• rglullisAEnglish
      3·
      12 days ago

      Just reposted it on !newcommunities@lemmy.world because why not

      Does this mean you won’t mind me posting the communities from the topic-specific instances, even if they are not exactly new?

          • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            10 days ago

            Oh nice! I haven’t had a chance to explore the new features yet. While I wouldn’t want to change it for piefed.ca, it might be nice in the future if instances were able to customize which community it uses. For the users/instances that block LW/that community

            • Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
              2·
              10 days ago

              Indeed. Down the line, hopefully we won’t rely on a community but rather on raw data from instances themselves, the current setup is quite of a workaround

          • rglullisAEnglish
            1·
            10 days ago

            https://chat.piefed.social/#narrow/channel/4-developers/topic/Lemmyverse.20Community.20Discovery/near/4966

            Wait, so the posts that are showing up on !newcommunities@lemmy.world are not really initiated by the user, but just the piefed server creating a post and impersonating the user that created the community?

            @rimu@piefed.social, if I’m understanding this correctly, it’s the second feature (the first one being the import of communities) where you have the server initiating actions but misrepresenting the true actor.

            • Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
              1·
              10 days ago

              There is a checkbox in the communicaty creation menu that allows you to indeed create a post on !newcommunities at creation

              • rglullisAEnglish
                1·
                10 days ago

                It’s funny to see these contrasting approaches between PieFed and Lemmy development.

                Rimu just treats this is a hobby and goes ahead yolo’ing a bunch of these features that abuse the underlying protocol and could bring serious systemic risks if other admins start deploying it, but because the current userbase is small then there is little scrutiny and they all think it’s good to go.

                The Lemmy devs are trying for years to get enough support to make a living of their work and therefore a lot more “professional” about what they do, so they would never introduce a feature that could cause Lemmy to be a “bad participant” in the network. But by not taking a more “customer-focused” approach to product development, it takes a long time to bring any functionality that makes it attractive.

                PieFed is definitely taking a “Worse is Better” approach and I don’t know what to make of it. It seems to be poised to make it most popular software among the current fediverse users, but at the same time it makes so idiosyncratic decisions that it makes it hard to believe it will be usable if more people started joining in.

                • Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
                  1·
                  10 days ago

                  that there is a point where less functionality (“worse”) is a preferable option (“better”) in terms of practicality and usability.

                  Seems accurate. This example is a good one: if you create a community and want it to succeed, you are going to promote it on !newcommunities@lemmy.world. Or maybe you aren’t aware of !newcommunities, because you are a now mod, but then it’s still useful to have that there.

    • AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      You aren’t! I’m the guy who runs the Orioles game day bot on lemmy.world. The threads get zero interaction, but it’s free to run, so whatever.
      All of the action is still over on reddit.

      • Klanky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        Haha I always upvote that whenever I see it. I did comment early on but as it got no interaction I just stopped. Maybe I should start up again.

  • Elevator7009@ani.socialEnglish
    3·
    11 days ago

    As far as I remember, MLB on Lemmy was one person posting articles, and I am way too casual in my MLB consumption to contribute anything to baseball communities.

  • obsoleteacct@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    12 days ago

    I’m an MMA fan and it’s a pretty dead scene on here. Which is kind of understandable. It’s pretty difficult to support the sport lately. I’ve kind of stopped watching.