I was adding onto your issue with another one (even groups, which match up with communities, can’t be followed)

It’s a shame you can’t follow these from Lemmy, not even the a.gup.pe groups. Maybe it’s time to make a Mastodon/Kbin account

I spotted some groups on Mastodon, but even those I can’t subscribe to (it’s stuck on Pending)

In my eyes, new users should just join some big reliable instance. Then, once they have some experience with Lemmy and actually know a bit about the instances, they can switch. Switching is pretty easy nowadays.

Oh I love the topics list. It already helped me discover a new community. I assume right now it’s curated by someone, would be cool if there was a way for communities to just apply tags to themselves. They could even be turned into hashtags, whenever someone posts to that community, as a kind of link to Mastodon.

Same way programming.dev is programming-themed, I assume: the communities all fit the common theme of being about Harry Potter

Best of luck!

Right, that makes sense. I’ve managed to avoid most of that, except for two cases where a mod grew tired of the sub and decided to ruin it. One of them involved turning it into an unironic Mussolini fan sub so at least there the admins stepped in.

It feels like Lemmy has also become less… diverse? At this point I think the default assumption is that every user is a white, cishet, male, tech nerd from the US, which wasn’t as much the case in the earlier days.

that’s imposing moderator will on community and its what most of us left reddit to get away from.

Now I’m curious how common this is, because it’s not at all why I left. I left to get away from Reddit the company. If anything I think Reddit subs tend to be moderated too leniently (which is good for Reddit, because hate is engagement)

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Hm I always avoid replying to anything older than, say, 2 days because I assume it’s pointless and/or it annoys people

It’s wild just how many apps there are for Lemmy, ha

We’re already that close to Mastodon in user count? Wack

I don’t really expect 4channers to have reasonable opinions on moderation, the whole reason it’s the way it is is because of lax moderation

I unsubscribed from all the subs that big years ago. It’s funny to see how people used Reddit so differently

you can see one in the other.

Right now, you can’t see Mastodon toots unless they go out of their way to link a Lemmy community. I hope we’ll get better integration at some point (a way to subscribe to users or hashtags, maybe), because that would give a lot more activity

Lemmy doesn’t have boosting. …I should check out KBin sometime, also because of the better Mastodon integration

Haha, that reminded me of something:

Any news about mainstream social media
“This is good for Lemmy.”

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