lemmyworld

ou might have seen that we’ve been defederated from beehaw.org. I think there’s some necessary context to understand what this means to the users on this instance....

Ok I hope I won’t come off as an ass here. I’m not always the most eloquent....

As we all try to settle into this new community just a friendly reminder to upvote and support your fellow community members! The only way new content will get to the front page is if people upvote it. AND it helps encourage people to submit more content....

… go through your ‘top posts’, copy & paste the text into a doc, post it here, then delete it. Let reddit’s loss be lemmy’s gain!

Someone created the ChronicPain community and then abandoned it. I have messaged this person with no response. They haven’t posted, commented, or anything since they made it....

If the performance weakness continues for a week or two, the agency would start recommending decreasing spend with Reddit or directing it to other platforms....

It’s been an amazing few days reading so many posts without a shred of toxicity in them. I’m sure it won’t always be a cake walk, but for the last couple of days I just feel… healthier mentally.

Okay, it’s actually 18955 at the time of this post. I’m looking at lemmy.fediverse.observer/list and lemmy.world has already passed beehaw.org by a large margin for second place....

Maybe this is unpopular but I’m getting tired of opening lemmy and having to scroll past the same post that I have viewed already, half of the posts on the front page are 2 or 3 days old.

Yeah, sorry about the run-on sentence title, but I hope you get what I’m saying

Starting last night, about a thousand subreddits have gone private. We do anticipate many of them will come back by Wednesday, as many have said as much. While we knew this was coming, it is a challenge nevertheless and we have our work cut out for us. A number of Snoos have been working around the clock, adapting to...

Apparently there’s an issue with some instances banning users for criticizing authoritarian governments. Is lemmy.world a safe place to criticize governments?

For me, it’s a few things....

Made custom icon for Jerboa because it didn’t fit well with my homescreen....

On a large subreddit with more than 100K users, it’s an unspoken rule that if a thread has more than 200 comments, don’t bother making a new comment because it will get buried by the default comment ranking and no one will interact with it. Nobody uses the “new” ranking because you’re only going to see the meaningless...

There is a huge emphasis I see on just growing community size and creating an alternative to reddit....

We’re still working to find a solution for the posting slowness in large communities....

My Welsh friend told me about this place, and I figured I might as well say hello! :3 Idk how long this site will last, but it’s a cozy place nevertheless. (I started Reddit in 2019) Happy Pride Month! :3

Was it natural and expected for Reddit, a titanic website of the Internet to get hit with a fatal blow- with user-induced blackouts and third-party abandonments?...

Thoughts? Seems like we are one of the only bigger instances with open sign ups still as well....

I’m still new on this stuff but I thought a few pictures could help clear out a bit of confusion, I sacrificed technical accuracy (hopefully not too much) to make it simple. Let me know what you think....