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  • [META] New Communities@lemmy.world is looking for moderators

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  • Okay, you are now a moderator!

  • Yes, I'm pretty sure, it is related to China, unless they try to censor it there

  • Just so you know, that community that your promoting is the community you posted this post in

  • It's not incorrect, it's not a link for kbin, it's for Lemmy

  • Well Lemmy is meant to be decentralized with no central authority, leading to multiple communities that are the same (or with similar topics) that have different rules and moderators. It leads to there being no single point of failure and by there being multiple communities, it can keep communities less corrupt, since there is always more than one to choose from

  • There is one in lemmy.film for Movies and TV Shows, but even if it was entirely the same community, there's still a reason to have more than one community on the same topic

  • I'm promoting this new community for discovery, not my own, but which EV communities do you personally recommend?

  • Takes a while for it to fetch the community, please read: Q: Why do I get a 404?

    A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.

  • I'm not familiar with the term unsers. However, there is a point for multiple communities. Lemmy is meant to be decentralized with no central authority, leading to multiple communities that are the same (or with similar topics) that have different rules and moderators.

    As an example, the first one is based on posting AI generated images with no specific platform while the second one is to share tips, questions, and images created on Midjourney only. This shows the differences, but even if the topics were entirely the same, it would be important for choice and decentralization

  • It's not much of fragmenting communities if people can easily learn about the others and it gives people choice. Not every technology community is the same. For example:

    • Lemmy.ml's focus is on all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it
    • Beehaw's is rumors, happenings, and innovations in the technology sphere. If it’s technological news, it probably belongs here
    • Lemmy.world's seems to be about news
    • Lemmy.einval.net's seems to be about general technology, without a focus on news so far based on the post I can see, but it is too new to know for sure.

    While the first three seem to be about news, the fourth seems to be about general technology.

    Furthermore, in some cases fragmentation of communities is the very point. Lemmy is meant to be decentralized, which gives you choice in which one to go to. I don't see how you think that is counterproductive though

  • Okay, that's good to know. I wasn't aware of that problem, I hope you get some progress on that issue soon!

  • That's pretty new too, it was made within the last week, the biggest I've seen is Beehaw's then Lemmy.ml's technology communities. However, new communities are always going to be smaller at the beginning than ones that have been around for a month or a year, but that changes when people learn that they exist!

  • No, lemmy.world is for any type of community, you don't necessarily need to move it to lemmy.studio , but it will help lemmy.world, since lots of people have been signing up in a short time-frame. You would have to start an account on an instance if you want to create an instance there. It's up to you if you want to change it to another instance or not

  • Opaque in this sentence means obscure or mysterious, not related in any way to a transparency value

  • It may be due to your instance not being aware of that community existing. See:

    Q: Why do I get a 404?

    A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.

  • I have never used the Jerboa app so take this all with a grain of salt, since it may be different than the website. The link with the [link text](/c/community@instance.com) should only work if the community is already linked with your instance, the two other formats can be put in the search bar, and after the instance fetches it, it should show up, but not sure how this all works on the app version though

  • I think it is done automatically when someone subscribes to a lemmy.ninja community? Pretty sure you don't have to request it, plus it's on the lemmy.world instance list already

  • Thank you for saying that!