I think it's essential to have one or more communities like this. There were a few on reddit -- watchredditdie, declineintocensorship, and more. The admins shut them down. I was unsuccessful in getting them to move over to Lemmy.

Absolutely the same things happen on lemmy. It's to be expected from both mods and admins. We need to have a place we can go to find out "which are the bad communities & instances".

The main problem I foresee is that those "watchredditdie and declineintocensorship" subs seemed to be well modded and mostly populated with intelligent people. In contrast, lemmy seems to have quite a lot of trolls, unintelligent people, and likely astroturfing. That will make things more difficult.

So everyone's able to hold it in? Where do they fart?

What do you use instead?

This works quite well usually.

I definitely don't agree. I think this is very problematic. I rely on all to find new communities. I don't think one newcommunities sub is a valid replacement. It would suffer from the same issue -- people would have to spam their post to every single instances's newcommunities sub, which is ridiculous and not even viable.

And now apparently removing all comments that mention Lemmy...

The sound is much less important than the smell.

Ok, thank you.

What would you use instead?

Perfect, thank you!

I'm not even subscribed to that, and even if I was, and it was a default subscription for every new lemmy.world user, I don't think it's a good replacement for a functional search or an all that includes all posts from federated instances. I see lots of posts on all-hot with 0-5 upvotes so it seems fine if it actually showed all communities on federated instances (which it doesn't).

The point is to search the whole fediverse, not just one instance.

The sound is not the issue. I haven't smelled anyone farting.

Great news.

But #3 would still smell bad and I haven't smelled anyone farting.

Forums are still around. People just got lazy and started using reddit instead. Search engines are also to blame since they don't bring up smaller forums in search results. People can go back to forums if they want.

This is becoming the norm. The ban system is totally broken as they're handing more and more tasks over to bad AIs. There are constantly tons of complaints from moderators about Reddit's various broken systems, including the ban system.

The number of subscribers being completely different depending on which instance you search from is really weird/bad too IMO.

Mazda https://piped.video/watch?v=MirpRkmruOg

Mazda files false DMCA takedown notice to intimidate open source programmer

In large part, I agree. But there are subs/content on reddit that isn't available anywhere else. I'd like to stop having to go to reddit for anything. The more communities that set up shop on lemmy, the more search engines will provide people with alternative results to reddit, and the less we'll have to go to reddit for niche content.

I don't understand why you and others are so mad about this. Stackoverflow is a great resource that takes significant time and money to maintain. I don't have a problem with the maintainers making money by selling access to train AI on the data.

Having Stackoverflow as an alternative to reddit is important so that people aren't stuck using reddit.

Any suggestions for improvement? Or you think messaging mods is just completely useless?

I don't agree that they are solutions. The only proposed solutions are in the new github issue that someone created.

did you just want to bitch and argue?

I want lemmy to be better. I want it to be a viable alternative to reddit so people will leave that site.

https://www.buycott.com/

Isn't it mostly text? Why would that be a heavy burden? Isn't there an option to disable local hosting of images & videos?

What is that?

If enough people did it I think it would help stop people from going to reddit for info and make them seek out other websites.

Pretty smelly. Once or twice per class I guess.

Yeah, the whole point of lemmy is to not be like that... so it definitely needs improvement.

Thanks for the info!

I found qBT to be missing features utorrent has, and thus I stick with UT v2.2, which is the latest recommended one before they started making controversial changes. I've never had any issues with utorrent's speed.

What about forking lasim, which is now inactive? https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

It's better than the built-in option because it gives you more options. For example, if I only want to add blocks from one account to another without overwriting any other settings. I don't see that your tool allows for that.

It’s not too big of an issue if you’re from big instance as people will likely look for more community to subscribe

Yeah that's what I thought, and I assumed that shitjustworks was big enough to not have to worry about that, but apparently not. So I think this is one of the biggest problems with lemmy right now.

which makes people migrate to bigger instance, and defeat the purpose of having multiple instance

Bingo.

Ventoy > Rufus and also bypasses them by default.

No it wouldn’t? Unless you mean that’s what you think it should do?

Yes, and it seems that the devs have this in mind on their to-do list.

I do encourage people on reddit to come here, but as another reddit mod recently said on lemmy, they're waiting for improvements on lemmy (like /r/toolbox, RES) before being able/willing to move over.

Nice OP! Thank you! I don't have a codeberg account yet, but you can use this to easily create a TOC https://imthenachoman.github.io/nGitHubTOC.

It would be good to add links/citations as well, instead of just quotes. IE: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/haier-hits-home-assistant-plugin-dev-with-takedown-notice/

Do you have a suggestion other than "do nothing"?

It doesn't appear that reddit is preventing subreddits from creating ans advertising lemmy alternatives. They don't have to close down.

Here you go https://sh.itjust.works/post/13700601. Most of the votes and comments are pro-reddit. And a user there also mentions another anti-reddit thread that the mods deleted for a pretty ridiculous reason.

A major reddit critic posts to lemmy and they get trolled or astroturfed, and their thread deleted.

Regardless, I've done what I can to try to get some communities to move to Lemmy, and they don't seem interested. So I think I give up for now.

The people sitting next to me would know.