Alive and well as @Gamera8ID@kaijus.us!

If “master” unintentionally made some people uncomfortable then there’s no harm in changing the default, since you can modify it if you choose.

No plans to go back :)

I notice you’re really putting in the work getting this community started. Thanks for that!

spin up your own private Lemmy instance

This is something I’m investigating, but the need to do so is a massive barrier to my adoption of Lemmy.

I can obviously only speak for myself

…and that’s totally fair. The majority of us are here because Reddit leadership made decisions without consulting the community. I’m only asking that we expect more from instance admins. Let’s talk about it.

I’d no more want

This is the part I don’t understand. How is this content impacting you by being present? Am I wrong about folks using “Subscribed” and I’m the only one who doesn’t use “All” frequently? Is it so inconvenient for an individual to block a noisy Lemmit.Online community they don’t want to hear from, or even for the admins to block those specific communities? Or is the objection “the principle of the thing” despite it being useful to a segment of the community?

reconsider your stance on making the communities here

What stance do you mean? I linked to discussions both here and on Reddit where I am trying to foster use of equivalent communities on Lemmy. I want to have the conversations here.

Let’s just do some quick math, though. (I pulled some of these stats off of Google and am willing to concede in advance that they may not be entirely accurate.)

Reddit has 861 million monthly active users.

The Boise subreddit has fewer than 50 thousand subscribers.

So less than 0.006% of Redditors subscribe to r/Boise. Remember that’s subscribers, including lurkers, and not active posters.

Lemmy has 21-thousand monthly active users.

So it’s fair to say that about 1.26 total Lemmy users would have an interest in subscribing to c/Boise right now, if I make it. That’s me and a quarter of a likely lurker.

This is not an exaggeration. The Idaho Lemmy community I linked (the only one I could find) has 15 subscribers, 1 post, and 1 reply (mine.)

The content will come when users do, but until it does it’s not really fair to suggest that individuals with niche interests create communities in which they talk exclusively to themselves or one other person if they’re lucky.

In most cases I’m happy with the links being shared, and don’t need to click through to Reddit for the discussions.

Not commenting, no. (Although occasionally I am at the meta level to help grow the equivalent Lemmy communities.)

I mostly use them as newsfeeds and not discussion boards. They limit my return to Reddit to only those cases where I really, really feel like there’s a conversation worth returning for.

Make the communities you want to see

This isn’t really feasible. It took years for Reddit to grow a userbase sufficient to have active niche subreddits like those.

Even widening the interests to state instead of city and hobby instead of specific trail there is almost no content here. That’s not going to change overnight.

The subreddits being copied by Lemmit.Online fill a gap for these niche communities which will only come with greater adoption of Lemmy. Blocking them only serves to drive traffic back to Reddit, in conflict with that objective.

the instance you bring up in particular is essentially a spambot.

I’d like to understand your perspective here. This and this are examples of subreddits I miss which have no active Lemmy equivalent. How is their existence at Lemmit.Online spam?

I think that’s why admin posts to lemmyworld would make sense.

“This week we blocked these 5 instances for these reasons and these 2 external communities for these other reasons. Discussions are open here until we lock the thread.”

This is being discussed in https://lemmy.world/c/jerboa@lemmy.ml too. You might want to check out that Community.

There’s a comprehensive list of Lemmy apps being curated here.

My personal recommendation is https://wefwef.app.

Thanks. My job’s gotten busier since I bought my DS412+ and it’s been sitting virtually unused for awhile. I’m hoping someone can provide directions that are just a step above “click to install” because I’m (too busy/too lazy/too clueless <-- pick one) to DIY it.

There’s a comprehensive list of Lemmy apps being curated here.

My personal recommendation is https://wefwef.app.

Have you tried https://wefwef.app?

You might want to try https://wefwef.app

The post he responded to listed a number of alternate scenes. All minor.

Boost user, too. There’s !boostforlemmy@lemmy.world modded by the dev, but my understanding is that they have no current plans for supporting Lemmy.

Also stealing.

Very helpful. Thanks!

Also check out these if you haven’t:

• https://lemmy.world/c/backpacking@lemmy.ml
• https://lemmy.world/c/ultralight@lemmy.ml
• https://lemmy.world/c/ultralight

Second for Today Weather, but I also use Google Weather as an app.

Maybe https://www.khanacademy.org?