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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It left a few. I got the highest karma and newest ones though.

 

I edited all my comments to this quote from Aaron Swartz:

"We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that’s out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerrilla Open Access."

It seemed appropriate. I'm sad to see the way that reddit has gone, but not surprised. I believe that if Aaron were still around, he'd be leading the charge against whats happening at reddit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No worries, I'm just trying to learn and looking for tools that can help me support the broader community as a fellow God.

For example, I'm still not sure I've got federation set up correctly because of some funniness around discovery. I think it might actually be the way lemmy.ml is set up.

Any tools that could help admin are just golden so keep cracking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

No luck using it for me.

Edit: Its telling me we're not a lemmy instance, but obv I'm commenting here so federated.> Lemmy@lem

Edit 2: Also says lemmy.world is not a lemmy instance...

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Dam you live like this?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You got me. I think that the approach of having to subscribe to a community on every federated instance means that discovery is kind-of broken. I get that it is 'working as intended' but I think that may have had unintended consequences.

The result has been monolithic communities which are all the 'same', and it ends up splitting interests across communities, which will inevitably slow growth, and prevent lemmy from being a true reddit killer (this is basic math of networks and how they function).

I know the developers are doing their best, but I think at a high level lemmy needs to be reconsidered. Instances should be focusing on some niche thing, like poland ball humor, or skiing, or woodworking, each with niche communities within them. For example "wintersports" might have communtieis for skiing, cross country skiing, maybe one for showing off your new skiis, etc... That way your 'home' is around your central interest. Then allow 'all federation' across all instances (if you want to).

This wouldn't be so much a software change as a cultural change to how we approach making lemmy's (aside from the discovery issue).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this just makes it much more difficult for small, niche instances to grow. It focuses sign ups into monolith instances (since you don't need to do discovery), which imo is pretty central to the issue reddit created in the first place.

Personally, I don't think lemmys like lemmy.ml, or lemmy.world, or beehub.org should really exist. The community duplication and centralization of content is going to represent a real barrier to effectively replacing reddit (as a viable option). I think it makes a lot more sense to have smaller lemmys focused on niche topics (for example, lofi, or sound engineering, or gardening, or in my case, degenerate financial advise). Each lemmy might be composed of a few communities which are all on theme, but can be federated more broadly into the entire ecosystem, so that cool niche things can be found.

For this to function there has to be some kind of automated community discovery (like you mentioned with a crawler, which it sounds like what I'll need to make for this to work.)

Already were seeing the issue that the centralization of users and content have created. All the drama lemmy.world and beehub.org have caused. Lemmy.ml crashing and struggling to serve content. Its all a result of centralization, which imo, is antithetical to the principal of the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I think this is going to be an issue/ something that the community is going to have to think about. It actually makes more sense for lemmy instances (like wallstreets.bet) to focus on particular subcultures/ types of communities, rather than being catch alls. This has a couple advantages in that you can replicate some of the structure of reddit (like having tagged posts), and it allows federation to focus on connecting to things that makes sense. This way resolves the duplicity issues.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah if this is happening it might explain the super confusing experience I've had trying to set up my own instance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ok, so this at least gives me confidence that the issues I'm seeing around federation may not just be me. One issue I'm seeing is that I'm not confident my comments are appearing on other instances/ or that I'm seeing comments from other instances.

@fedora, do you see this comment?

 

Is there any way to automate community discovery across lemmy instances?

I'm just getting my lemmy community going and I'm seeing super weird behavior when I'm trying to add communities or connect via federation.

 

So I got this instance up yesterday and I didn't (still don't) really understand federation.

Does any one have a tutorial or an explainer I could tuck into that can help me figure out how to effectively federate/ connect to other lemmy instances?

For example, I connected to !memes[email protected]. It appears to now be 'federated', in that when I look at 'all communities' on [email protected] , then I see posts. Whats weird though, is that they are all 18 hours behind, and have no activity.

I really want to support the growth of the lemmy verse. I think the best way to do this is with unique, niche focused federated instances for 'groups' of specific interests. wallstreets.bet is how I thought I could support that. But I'm struggling with the federation aspect and I'm not sure its working correctly.