its true
Hey I leave comments. And half decent ones at that!
And? Small community, big heart, I say.
I’ve always wondered how often I post compared to others. Granted no one is near the squid…
Henlo
pretty standard for forums.
Cool! I’m one of 40!!!
Yeah, it’s kinda like that. Thankfully!
In addition to the1% rule that Blaze mentioned, there is the concept of tribes. Lemmy/MBin have fostered a tribal culture. Those that don’t follow in line with that culture are more fringe and as a result receive a different ratio of up votes to downvotes. It helps people find their place in our tribe, but it can also be off putting and result in a sort of self-exile.
I’m not saying this limitation is good or bad. I personally find the views here refreshing even if I don’t always agree with them. To me, it’s a comfortable little microcosm of the human experience. But it is just that, a microcosm.
If you want more people to contribute, we either have to evangelize and recruit and/or celebrate a more open culture.
Right now it feels more like the beginnings of Reddit. My concern is if we make a goal to get bigger, we’ll also fall into the trappings of current Reddit.
Is there anywhere or any way you can recommend to get rid of US politics in my feed? Seems like theres a lot of that (I don’t mind a little but not every second post)
Just block a lot for communities.
And a filters using https://lemmy.world/post/24545370
Wow - this is awesome thank you
What Blaze said, or make sure your on an instance that suits your interests and rely on Local tab as the filter.
Be it Nation (like myself at aussie zone), or special interests (like the instance “vegan theory club”). These instances Local feeds are very different from All Lemmy, and days often go by without any passing referal involving US politics.
It doesn’t mean you can’t participate in the All tab discussions trending across the Lemmy instances, but it does mean your own Lemmy instance provides a kind of safe harbour, or comfortable place to retreat to when the trending posts get too much.
Thank you for the reply! I will take a look around
Great points and well said. Lemmy needs small community tools to really be a open platform for everyone
- unlisting a small community from all
- only allowing subscribers to vote on small communities
- posting requirements for small communities (account must be x old, have x votes, have some voting ratio, etc)
We need safe spaces for everyone.
I don’t really have this issue but I go out of my way to find new communities.
This is why I’m everywhere 😏
Maybe you should try posting more.
👋🏻 lurker here
It’s true, I told myself I’d post more often but, lurking is a habit.
I’s exactly the same as you. Big Lurker. I exhuded much lurk energy.
I think where we differed is i made an active decision to mod a community. And held myself accountable as if i have a responsibilty. Importantly i decided to be an active supporter and user of said community. I branch out a bit now, but my overwhelming set of activity is in the niches.
It seemed possible, Lemmys small enough, and my niches are plenty small enough to not feel overstretched.
As a Lemmy Worlder the perspective must be different though for you. I was talking to /u/Blaze@feddit.org about this a few weeks back, and he said it feels much more like reddit on the large lemmy instances. I imagine that must make it seem overwhelming? unnecessary? (You’d have to tell me), to think about modding communities as an avenue to getting actively involved.
it feels much more like reddit on the large lemmy instances.
Definitely. By the way, how is your guys delay with Lemmy.world? It is solved?
You know, i’s gona say its mostly not been an issue, like i think we’re down to a few hours, but then i tried to find the last time the LW lag time was spoken about on the local c/meta and i can’t see the discussion i’m thinking of.
So i think we’re pretty good now, i don’t know i need a Lemmy Worlder to come and comment on something to test it ;)
Still 6 to 8 hours of delay: https://grafana.lem.rocks/d/bdid38k9p0t1cf/federation-health-single-instance-overview?orgId=1&var-instance=lemmy.world&var-remote_instance=aussie.zone
Another reason to move a few other communities out of LW
Wow! This is new! For me, i mean. That’ll be useful to keep track of cheers!
Yeah, LW is a little problematic. It’d be interesting to read the LW admins and mods take on this. Whether they feel stretched, or see the issues the smaller instances see, or whether their size and centralised role is what they like.
The only thing i remember from a ways back is the admins have an express mantra of user growth.
I just chatted with someone on the LW staff, things are progressing.
Same.
Oftentimes I just can’t get into the topic being discussed or I don’t have a well thought out opinion, so I’d rather enjoy reading what others think.
I wish there was more content here sometimes, but I’m not allowed to complain until I contribute more myself.
This isn’t really different from other websites. And it’s more than 40 users, but yeah, it’s a small number.
I post randomly and without logic to confuse the sand worms.
Removed by mod
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Ive found that any george strait style waltz beat throws off the graboids completely.
