I'm considering closing and redirecting [email protected] and [email protected]. They haven't seen much activity in months/years. Usually, people just post in the ask/asklemmy communities and indicate which group of people they want answers from.

Here is a draft for the pinned post so far:

There currently isn't a one to one match for the topic of this community. If you want answers from a specific group (ex. men/women), you could instead start your question with a phrase like "A question for men:". Here are some alternative communities:

"Ask" communities (for starting a discussion):

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

For questions that are more specific to your situation:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]

Group specific communities:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

Broader in topic (not necessarily questions):

• [email protected]

If you would like to take over this community, please reach out to @[email protected]

Do you have any thoughts? Are there other communities that should be included in the list?

[email protected] but

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=privacy&order=active

A community is a group of people gathering for some shared interest, the community is not relevant for people who do not share that interest.

The goal of a community is to create a space for people who share that interest to have a place to interact freely and openly. Shielding members of a community from external forces that would diminish or prevent free expression in that community is one of the major responsibilities of a community runner.

0. A community means EXCLUDING people who don't share a interest.

This is just the same statement as 'A community is for people sharing a interest', but expressed differently. It is important to be explicit about this logical consequence, as it drives the responsibilities of a community maintainer.

Lemmy currently does not have a way for communities to be opt-in, all content is visible to everyone in ALL. Individuals needs to opt-out of a community by blocking it. This current model isn't ideal - the 1.0 road map does have the opt-in as a feature that is coming.

This does mean for niche communities they can get overwhelmed by incidental negativity by people browsing ALL who don't specifically intend to target the community.

In addition to normal moderation practices (being objective, hands off, ensuring conversations don't go into hostile territory, keeping this on topic), the niche moderators need to keep a eye on participation chilling events.

Example: If a new community member makes a post and gets met by lots of negativity they are unlikely to keep participating (the chilling effect).

What does this look like in practice?

1. People who come to a community with hostile posts or comments are removed (normal moderation)
2. People who spread negative votes on every post in a community are removed (normal moderation)
3. People who only spread negativity when they see the community in the ALL feed are removed (niche moderation)
4. Lurking accounts with no post or comment history who spread negativity are removed (niche moderation)
5. Sockpuppet accounts who only vote in small bursts and don't demonstrate organic activity are removed (niche moderation)

FAQ:

Original Post Here - https://hackertalks.com/post/13655318

Hello everyone,

I raised the point recently already, but to make it short

• there is an active poster on [email protected]
• [email protected] is mostly me and @[email protected]
• I think it would be beneficial to consolidate on one community rather than crosspost content from one to the other

I tried to reach out to the active poster, who posted to the lemmy.dbzer0 community in the past before switching back to programming.dev, and I guess they disagree with some of the stances of dbzer0 (probably the pro AI one)

Programming.dev has a few hiccups from time to time, but for a few months it has been stable

What do people think?

Any other good ideas?

Update [email protected]

Original post

Creating this post here as I've been banned from the other community (as well as the instance) https://dubvee.org/modlog?page=1&community=111105 , while I was the only mod there.

• Lemmy.zip could be a good option
• I don't have a very strong opinion, I haven't been very active with that community to be honest, I'm not sure how relevant it is as the show has ended for a while now, and most content seems to be reposts

Hey all! Me and Lemmy superstar @[email protected] have revitalised [email protected] We have a mix of wholesome comics, memes and chat topics. Drop in for some good old fashioned wholesome fun 😇

Hope this relates enough to the growing of the threadiverse and is not too technical for this comm. After the closure of .ee I was wondering if there is/was some movement to be able to migrate whole communities off an instance including all its posts. Having a great resource of human made information is the main reason to be using lemmy but the possibility of it vanishing is scary.

To my understanding the posts that are hosted on the op's instance and not the one closing down can be migrated by the actor of the community "boosting" (or whatever the activity pub term is) the posts again. And for the posts hosted on the instance closing down they could have a process similar to mastodon migration, of course on their own decision.

Was this discussed elsewhere?

Dog-piling is when someone expresses an opinion and people swarm in the comments telling the OC how wrong they are and how right they are. Typically the person getting dogpiled is downvoted into oblivion in the process. Note that I'm not talking about anything controversial in their opinion or the comment being trolling in any way; just any general disagreement with the groupthink.

Brief example:

User 1:  There are lots of factors at play here, not just money.  There's X, Y, Z, and those are all independent from money.
  |____> User 2: No, it's money.  It's always money
  |______>  User 4: Right?  How can anyone think it's anything *but* money?  Some people!
  |____> User 3: Yes, well, X, Y, and Z wouldn't be a problem if not for capitalism, so it's definitely money, and you're wrong.
  |____> User 5: It all boils down to money; always does.
  |____> User 6: Of course it's money.  Only a capitalist bootlicker would think otherwise.
  |____> User 7: Go back to Reddit, troll.
  |____> User 8: You're so close, but it's money.  
  ...
  |____> User 999: (Same as the last 998 comments; contributes nothing except attacking the opinion for being different)

None of that adds anything to the discussion; they're not engaging on the subject, just attacking the opinion because it differs.

That behavior does not seem healthy to me and seems like it's almost designed to discourage anyone from expressing any opinion that's not part of the established group think. Again, I am not talking about trolls here, just any kind of differing opinions.

Should that kind of behavior be discouraged? If so, as a mod, what would be the best way to address it? After the 2nd or 3rd dogpile comment, start removing subsequent ones that are just piling on?

It's definitely a people problem, so I'm curious what would be a gentle but firm way to deal with it.

[email protected]:

• 692 users / month
• 878 subscribers
• active mods

[email protected]:

• 445 users / month
• 196 subscribers
• inactive mod

I would suggest to consolidate to the first one, open for discussion.

Content jacking and top posting other people's content is really bad for Lemmy. It's also just being a dick to other people making content on the platform.

• feed is spammy
• divides conversation
• chills engagement
• makes Lemmy less friendly to posters

This pattern is very common on lemmy, and needs to stop.

This is often used to attack or force migrate conversations from a instance someone doesn't like to another instance they do like. It's offensive by its very nature.

If you want to make a better community, great, do it but not at the expense of other Lemmy posters.

Post mostly spawned because whenever I see games that fit various video game genre communities, I try to post it there, and when I hit a strategy game I end up crossposting to lots of different places.

There are two general strategy communities, and some for more specific subgenres. I think it'd be nice to fold the subgenres into a bigger community for now just due to the smaller size of Lemmy so all the strategy fans can talk and see each others' posts instead of sectioned-off isolated folks screaming into the void, but I'm also not a big strategy game buff and I'd rather the people who play them more have a bigger say, hence this post. Besides, if subgenre fans tend to stick to that subgenre and don't bother too much with other things in the overall strategy genre, there is probably a good reason to keep them separate.

We have the big [email protected], allowing what seems to be anything in the strategy genre, with the last two pages of posts being mostly from @[email protected] and a couple from me. Mod is still active on Lemmy at [email protected]. However, lemmy.world is the big giant and moving off there might be nice.

Next is [email protected]. Seems to be a similar moderation philosophy. The last time the mod @[email protected] posted was 2 months ago. A lot less recent activity, though I think @[email protected] might be interested as well given how often I have seen them around the Fediverse. There are several other posters but from months ago. However, sopuli.xyz is smaller than lemmy.world and moving everyone there might be nice.

Now we get into more specific communities. [email protected], for Real-Time Strategy, a subgenre of strategy games. Mod, @[email protected] was active in the past month, and primary poster is @[email protected], active in past few days which is great! Seems to be just them though and it would be nice for them to get visibility from other groups and other posters. Smaller instance, which is nice.

Finally, [email protected], yet again presenting the problem of being on lemmy.world. Mod @[email protected] not seen for 2 years. Variety of posters, not much activity here though.

[email protected] again presents the problem of being on lemmy.world. Primary poster @[email protected] again, seems to be just them. Mod @[email protected] has not been seen for 2 years.

Hey all! WomensStuff has moved from lazysoci.al to [email protected] We're a trans+ inclusive women only community for all things women including fashion, feminism and general female chat.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/39495259

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=shittyaskscience

No duplicate community currently exists on another instance, so we have free range. Any suggestions?

Sometimes you want to make a post for a community but don't want to reach the ALL audience (niche or controversial communities). Here is a pseudo workaround to achieve this.

• Make a post
• Immediately delete the post
• Wait 12-24 hours
• Undelete the post

The post will appear in the community at the original creation time and not the undelete time. This avoids the bulk of people who browse all by new (since it will be buried 12 hours in the past). Subscribers will still see the post in their feed

So we have A (aussie.zone) H (hackertalks.com) S (slrpnk.net) and D (dubvee.org)

• UserS is banned from dubvee.org but not the community
• UserS respond to a post from H, and H and A see this comment
• D does not see UserS's comment (makes sense, since they were banned).
• S has no community subscribers
• S does not see H, or A's response to UserS's comment

• 2 - Why does A see UserS's comment at all?
• 3 - Why doesn't S see A's response, or H's response to the comment? No local subscribers?

TL;DR: Integrity, or instance identity, and outreach are both important to help federated online spaces to continue to exist.

This is meant as a kind of complementary piece to sabreW4K3's post, Why Integrity Matters (link to thread on their home instance).

I'm writing this as I don't entirely agree with, nor disagree with them, and want to provide another perspective.

Integrity, or as I see it, instance identity, does matter insofar as one wants to build a distinct community that anyone cares about. At the same time, online communities typically aren't self-sustaining in the same ways offline communities can be. Online communities benefit from both integrity and outreach to sustain themselves.

Lemm.ee going offline soon is as much an indicator of this as anything. Calls for additional admins to help offset burnout went unanswered, and while there are many reasons for this, one among those may be as simple as insufficient interest or care for the instance. With Lemm.ee being a "General-purpose" instance, it never developed much of an identity, nor a local community with much attachment or interest in its maintenance.

At the same time, it's unclear how much more outreach was attempted to get more help with its administration, and beyond that, to draw in more people that might care enough to build a distinct community on Lemm.ee to in turn find those interested enough to join its admins.

Simply put, more people helps to delegate the responsibilities of moderation and reduces some of the burden of admins. It can also help indirectly to "moderate" the feeling/atmosphere of an instance to have more people with more varied interests participating.

Without integrity, each instance is at risk of disinterest in it remaining, and without outreach, each instance is at risk of growing stagnant. In the absolute worst case, without both you not only risk losing instances, or communities, but possibly development of the software (whether it's Lemmy, Mbin, or Piefed or so on) itself in the long term.