For any weird, bigoted stuff, lots of downvotes and no replies is hopefully the message an OP needs to receive to get the hint that they should by plying their recruitment attempts elsewhere. Engaging them is probably the worst thing to do.

I've had to remember that there's automatic hiding though, and do that manually.

Block by user: the bot at lemmit online is the main offender.

I heard from an Aboriginal tour guide that in native populations everyone just did the role they wanted / were good at, and it was only from the introduction of Christian missionaries that such a division of labour was encouraged.

That's the look of a woman who's going to take that thing with her to the bath.

God, no. That thing with the submersible shows we can't even explore our own ocean without exploding.

Right now there are people who sign up with an instance like lemmy.world, who then create loads of communities, because they don't fully understand the nature of things and can't quite believe that the URLs for lots of different IPs are available. For Reddit, if you snagged the likes of r/starwars early on, that gave you some power. For Lemmy, it's meaningless: if you just want to moderate 100 communities, and not spend time actually building a Community up, then you'll just be overtaken by the Community at one of the many other instances.

Everyone became convinced that 'old memes' were the new thing (possibly in response to the popularity of Antique Memes Roadshow) and they swamped out everything else on All

Interesting. My source is obviously anecdotal and from another country. Is it verified that Buffalo tribes always thought this vs. being influenced by European colonisers?

(I don't want to fall into the trap of thinking older civilizations didn't have the same gender hang-ups as modern ones.)

Also, is there formatting on here? I just defaulted to my old habit of > for quote text.

Yeah, same markdown as Reddit

I can't claim to understand this tech yet, but I feel like so many of these communities being on the same instance isn't the way it's supposed to be.

This post is very old, but it's what came up when I googled it, so for anyone else, here's some basic scripts for logging in and then using the authentication to get something that may help you get started in exploring the API.

There's some sticky posts for this community - on the importance of initially populating a community, and providing links (I've no idea where 'protest' is hosted)

There was a point (only a few days ago really) when browsing All was a way of discovering new communities, but now, if it's not memes it's auto-generated bot content harvesting link from HN or wherever.

Thanks. Subscribed.

The Name of the Wind is a brave first recommendation though. A little joke: for George R R Martin's unfinished work after he dies, Patrick Rothfuss has already been selected as the author to also not complete them.

Lists like this should be pinned somewhere IMO. Blocking all bots to hide the output from indiscriminate repost automators is a bit of sledgehammer to crack a nut.

You can search on lemmyverse.net or browse.feddit.de

Or see if anything in !newcommunities@lemmy.world takes your interest.

I'm still transferring stuff between my phone and computer using FTP, like some caveman.

Yes - in the same way that Truth Social (Trump's platform) is a Mastodon instance that doesn't federate with anything else

Oh right. I thought they meant this kind

It's blockable fortunately - maybe not via whatever app your using, but if you log into your instance website with a browser, you can choose to block the bot (at) lemmit (dot) online

If you're from the UK, "Threads" is known as an oddly scary TV movie that messed up many a child who watched it. So it's already synonymous with end times.

Ah, I wondered if that's what it was - I found a Star Wars community through a web search and it said there were 2.5k subscribers, but it only shows 1 subscriber (me) when I view from an app.

Was a great season. Seeing Olivia Colman put up for a tiny scene was electric, but Marcus's missed messages in the final was brutal.

As bad as that bot is, it's made worse by just how random the stuff it pulls through is.

English lets you get away with saying things you don't exactly mean. A lot of the efforts from groups that might be disparaged as 'woke' over preferred terminology exist because it allows for so much ambiguity.

To use a common example: there's a difference between "Group X struggle to get bank loans" and "Banks have consistently not loaned to Group X" in terms of where the fault lies, but because English allows us to use the former to mean the latter, it seems like an imposition to be reminded.

Other languages - e.g. German - don't allow for this: your intended emphasis changes the word order, so you have to think about what you really mean.

Clicking that link on mobile opens up my email app! I think it needs a ! before it to work.
Alternatively: embedded link to Trending Communities

I bought a cheap 'mp3 player' from eBay when I was trying to use my phone less, but it was rubbish: no library function (just the files, listed in the order they were copied), m4a support was limited to low-complexity), Bluetooth dropped if I moved my head.

I was surprised, because there's definitely system-on-a-chip + open-source software combinations that would make a good, cheap player. The kind of places that make them though, will always prefer to use even-cheaper components than what the final retail price would suggest.

So, because everyone uses their phone for music listening now, it's hard to get a dumb player. They're either rubbish, like I bought, or they're completely at the other end of the scale (as in more expensive than a phone)

Please include links for those of us unfortunate enough not to be on lemmy.zip

!linuxscripts@lemmy.zip

Snookered by Dan Deacon

Accidental Renaissance on Reddit was set to private by its mods, who opened up here instead. I don't know how subscribers on Reddit there was, but yesterday's surge now means there's 1659 Lemmy subscribers.
So yes, there's some movement, but I doubt it's a "mass exodus"

That book seems stacked for quotes.

“Son, I hate to say this — because, if you've been reading a lot of English, I see how you reached that opinion — but you are one hundred percent wrong.”

Was this question really asked three years ago?!
(Maybe I'm reading it wrong or there's an interface bug)

OP was asking about blocking instances, not communities - e.g. everything that's hosted by lemmy.world, not just nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

Oh right, I tried that - I was going to put a link in my comment, not just complain - but it didn't work, so I assumed it must be elsewhere. But now I've clicked on your link a few times, it shows up. Thanks.

new.endlesstalk.org looks very pretty, and it's all very speedy, but - for me, on Microsoft Edge - clicking 'Subscribed' or 'Local' or 'All' doesn't actually change anything.

Also, I tried to migrate my subscriptions etc with LASIM, but - for old.endlesstalk.org - it says the API isn't there, and for endlesstalk.org and new.endlesstalk.org it uploads and says it's worked, but nothing is there for any of the site versions.

It's not just the same people, (re)posting whatever seems popular at the moment?

PRAW is the Python wrapper for Reddit's API, and searching github for "lemmy api python" revealed some results, so you'd use one API to download a post, and the other to upload it.

There's existing bots that do this though, and they all seem to just fill feeds with indiscriminate, un-replied to, spam

Just start one (a community, that is). There's not some marauding band of trolls out there, waiting to give you a hard time. If it's niche enough, it'll be a highlight just to see someone-who-isn't-you post something!

Fixed, thanks.

Banners are horizontal though, no? Maybe your cat is angry 'cos you're holding your phone the wrong way around.