New job, so figuring out all that stuff related to being in a new environment. :/

I don’t care for it.

People think the “content” of Reddit is the submissions that are made, but that’s not actually that true at all. When people pointed out their ability to get information using search engines degraded due to widespread comment blackouts and protests on Reddit, it wasn’t because the submissions were inaccessible, but because the individual comments and chained discussions that became inaccessible.

Cross-posting from Reddit brings over the submission, but not the comments or discussions related to the submission, and ultimately that is what should be of interest.

Sure there’s not a lot of conversations here in general, but I can 100% assure you cross-posting to bring submissions over here is not going to generate much more.

Who the heck knows lol

Incompetent the whole lot really

Yes, but are calzones a sandwich? Is pizza an open-faced sandwich? Why am I asking these questions?

I definitely have no skin in the game here, but wow just skimming some of the discussion topics, it sounds like a small group of people want to monopolize a fairly easy to vocalize domain for a very specific purpose of power-modding it rather than any sincere attempt at being an all-encompassing community.

Kind of like how some people are moderators / owners for some 30-40 communities on popular instances and flooding some of them with submissions as if all they do for a day job is to do that under the guise of “sharing content” while giving little to no room for anything to stick long enough to garner discussion (I don’t know about the next person, but the “content” is the discussion, not the shared link).

These people are not leaders nor are they effective community managers. Rather they want to monopolize the community to serve a particular motive, and are leveraging the fact they’ve become “landed gentry” to shape a community that fits their wishes, rather than one spun together by the engagement of its members.

Think it’s funny that the lemmynsfw instance is having its own internal mutiny. tl;dr - ex-admin reported the server to their host prompting a server migrate

I reckon such a feature would start catching on, even if it’s on client side.

The entire point of federation is to allow duplicate threads (kind of like how different forums can have the exact same discussion thread), but a consequence is it does spread activity out, and from my PoV, at least in the short term making things seem less active than they actually are is a bit discouraging for people to want to commit.

Cross-posting is also supported innately so that’s nice.

It’s different. I wish I had the ability to create a meta-community (or meta-instance) that pulls communities from different instances together into one feed without having to mass-subscribe to all of them.

The fact there are multiple communities of the same or similar interest spread across multiple instances makes it much harder to get a good grasp of actual activity, so it takes more effort to reach a critical mass.

It’ll get better with time since Lemmy is still pretty underdeveloped as software.

Institutional momentum is really hard to overcome. Sometimes people are willing to move (e.g. Skype/Teamspeak/Ventrillo/Mumble to Discord), sometimes not so much (Reddit to Lemmy).