This looks good, I just found an old (3 year old post - I didn’t even know Lemmy was around back then!) and commented on it. There were also funnily two other recent comments (one from 2 months ago and another 3 months old).

It’s worked excellently. Very easy to use.

Quote I heard very recently: Don’t do things that would not achieve the goal you wanted if everybody did it.

It’s got too many caveats, but it’s certainly food for thought.

Block memes and politics if you must - I blocked the latter and my experience is superb.

If you comment on posts you think are under-rated and upvote, you’ll push them up the activity queue and it’ll reach more people.

I’ve been posting on the HP and Tolkien communities and begun modding them too. I’d encourage people to post, and if necessary take up a little responsibility too.

I suspect doing this on posts with less upvotes will push them up the queue, so if you see any under-rated posts go upvote and comment on them.

I’m moving to lemm.ee personally for similar reasons. I’m keeping the dotworld account as backup and may be creating communities here.

I’ll personally post as long as it’s relevant. Ideally it’s an interesting comment but not always. I stay away from reddit-type inane comments with no substance, though I’m sure they have their place here as well.

Some people might have made multiple accounts and chosen one possibly?

For now if you want another account, you just make another (with any username you want, I have an account with the same username on lemm.ee). It’s possible to port subscriptions and blocked users and communities to a new account using some software. While that is useful, it’s not a proper account migration.

However keep in mind you can mostly access most other instances from your home instance. In that case your username (and instance) ‘carry over’.

On the off chance lemmy.world has defederated from an instance, and you can’t access it, you can join another general, neutral instance like lemm.ee

Feel free to make an account on another instance like lemm.ee (a general sensible instance) or lemmy.cafe (run by a guy, new) or a country-based instance where people of that country congregate. You might do this to keep your interests or purposes for the accounts separate or in case the lemmy.world server is down (even for a short while), or to potentially access defederated instances and their communities.

OP should possibly check out lemmy.ml’s worldbuilding community which is slow but has had more posts in total.

A major advantage of the old place was that you could search up keywords and find a discussion on it. When I wasn’t browsing, the other times that I’d end up using it was for when I needed to look stuff up.

I’m not sure what the pros cons ratio is though.

Good work guys.

I remember them from the old place and have nothing kind to say about them.

It’s just overt 196phobia, whom I assumed they mostly comprise.

I’ll add that I’ve seen that particular admin elsewhere and they didn’t seem particularly off. In fact here they’re just concerned about attracting paedophiles which isn’t exactly a bad precaution. But that instance really has very little of substance or value going by their communities.

Possibly some kind of democratic voting system would work? Or maybe the mods must all vote to do the move. Just an idea from when I saw another instance do a vote (for federation) using emojis, on a post, and they just counted them basically.

(edit: The mastadon method seems feasible though posts need to move too.)

You’ve just reminded me I have an account there.