Every community I care about is dead
Syncthing - No introduction needed. Couldn’t live without it.
Healthchecks.io (you can self host this) - Dead man’s switch monitoring for all my automation. Most of my automated scripts hit up a Healthchecks endpoint when they run, and if they fail to hit the endpoint on a regular schedule I get notified. Mandatory for my anxiety.
I think mods (including me) wouldn’t to put effort into a new community if it doesn’t get any interaction, so I think it would be nice to at least start with it appearing in the “All” tab.
This is a very good usecase for a problem I hadn’t even thought of.
Seems to have been reversed by both instances.
Is scraping reddit’s HTML without using an API doable? I’m not sure if the reddit RSS feed has any notion of upvotes/popularity.
I think the limited number of posts per day feature of this is really the standout that makes this intriguing to me. We already have the Lemmit bot posting every single post from reddit to Lemmy like a firehose, but discussion on them is sort of like yelling into a void. If we only post the top ~3 posts per day from a subreddit, we can condense any conversation into just those and guarantee that it’s not going to get washed away with the rest of the junk content. Even though it’s not ideal, I think a crutch like this could go a long way to seeding some “natural” activity.
Lemmy’s comment sorting does also actively prevent getting buried, unlike reddit (?). Newer comments are biased towards the top, and even heavily-upvoted older comments will fall towards the bottom. The lack of “global karma” and our community’s propensity to heavily downvote anyone doing redditisms like pun threads are also doing a lot of work here.
Karma is still able to be calculated manually on Lemmy by totaling all posts - I feel it is inevitable that a popular app adds this feature and we’re back to gamification.
Removal of global karma is my favorite thing about Lemmy as well. People on Reddit were so performative, posting things they didn’t care about or stifling unpopular opinions in order to get magic points.
The posts are different on each server. They are effectively separate communities with separate names, counting the server as part of its name.
I feel piracy for demo purposes is fully justified if you buy it after you like it. People always say vote with your wallet but it’s more like gambling with your wallet if you don’t get to see and touch the product before you make the purchase. Giving proper demos should be more common with digital media.