FrostyTrichs
@FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online
- Comment on I just migrated a community from Lemmy to Piefed using the migration feature, it worked quite well 20 hours ago:
It’s fine mate, I’m not here to crucify people who want to or have moved to piefed for any reason. People should be able to go where they feel comfortable and welcome and be happy about it. Do what you want and what works for you, of course. All I’m saying is that people should take note of what has happened and why, and do what they can to mitigate that problem going forward.
As long as communities are migrated and redirects are up before the last day of lemm.ee the transition will be miles ahead of what we’ve seen in the past where instances go dark without warning. Communities and users survived then and they will survive now I’m sure.
It’s just a bit strange to see all the people saying how they would’ve helped lemm.ee if they’d known sooner or if more cries would’ve gone out, and then nobody spins up instances to actually DO the things they say.
- Comment on Slrpnk.net outage 21 hours ago:
Ouch. Best of luck getting it back up and running ASAP.
- Comment on I just migrated a community from Lemmy to Piefed using the migration feature, it worked quite well 22 hours ago:
I think the urgency is being blown out of proportion as a knee jerk to really crappy news. There is almost a month to move, which should be plenty of time for new instances to launch and communities to disperse. Even after the shutdown the rest of the fediverse will be able to redirect users to the new communities, wherever they are homed.
Again, I’m not against piefed or against people moving somewhere they feel more comfortable or like more. Those are positive things that the fediverse could definitely use. I just don’t understand why we can’t learn the lesson and move on instead of moving on and hoping it doesn’t happen again before more instances pop up.
- Comment on I just migrated a community from Lemmy to Piefed using the migration feature, it worked quite well 23 hours ago:
At this moment, 9 out of the 10 most active communities are on LW: lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active
You have to scroll 3 times to see !television@lemm.ee, the first Lemm.ee community.
Lemm.ee was already a decentralization factor from LW, but it was still tiny in terms of communities compared to LW. Moving all of the Lemm.ee communities to Piefed.social (not that it’s the case anyway, I’ve seen communities moving elsewhere) would keep the status quo that we were all living with.
Of course ideally over time more Piefed instances emerge, and we can spread a bit more. Also, thanks to the Piefed migration feature, we’ll be able to move communities much smoother (even including subscribers).
Right, I’ve seen pretty much that same reply already.
I think it’s a chance to learn a lesson from how and why lemm.ee is shutting down. Right now I think people are risking moving the same problem somewhere else. Sure, in theory the problem gets better with time because the tools to move around are there, but that only matters if there’s somewhere to move.
It would be much more encouraging to see dozens of new piefed instances being launched/advertised. I think there’s a big push towards something new because it’s in the right place at the right time, and I genuinely hope it’s a successful project long term. I just hope the people utilizing it are willing to support it as a platform and not just as a flagship instance.
- Comment on I just migrated a community from Lemmy to Piefed using the migration feature, it worked quite well 23 hours ago:
Disclaimer: I’m not trying to discourage people from moving to or using piefed. I understand the enthusiasm for it and utility of it. This is meant to foster discussion not hate on piefed.
Is it just me or are a lot of people just ignoring the fact that a lot of communities and people are centralizing to pretty much a single point of failure again? Wouldn’t it be wise to expand the number of piefed instances to help keep things spread out there too if that’s the platform you prefer?
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
The OP has comments disabled and it didn’t seem right to not say thank you and goodbye.
To the entire team past and present at lemm.ee- Thank you for the time and resources you poured into this platform. You will undoubtedly be missed.
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- Comment on Hoya walliniana v. blooms opened up today :) 1 week ago:
Love it!
- Comment on My Hoya wayetti var. is blooming for the first time! 1 week ago:
Thanks for sharing your beautiful plant!
- Comment on There are no downsides 1 week ago:
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- Comment on bit of a rambler is a travel podcast and general travel Q&A community 1 month ago:
Idk about RSS feeds but Lemmy Schedule exists for scheduling posts. I keep meaning to try it out but haven’t yet.
- Comment on Downtime - Apologies and what went wrong 1 month ago:
Unfortunately these things can and do happen. I’m glad you were able to get things functional with a restoration. Best of luck troubleshooting and repairing the leftover gremlins.
Thanks for all you do to support Lemmy.
- Comment on 2 Instances are being used for coordinated vote manipulation, and should be defederated. chinese.lol lemmy.doesnotexist.club 1 month ago:
That’s fine, but removing downvoting doesn’t prevent the discussion. It curbs drive-by negativity which is a good thing IMO.
Obviously everyone is free to disagree with things. It should be more than absentmindedly hitting a down arrow though. Others obviously feel differently. Thankfully both exist on Lemmy.
- Comment on 2 Instances are being used for coordinated vote manipulation, and should be defederated. chinese.lol lemmy.doesnotexist.club 1 month ago:
That would be a useful feature. Maybe something to roll out alongside private communities and things coming in the future.
- Comment on 2 Instances are being used for coordinated vote manipulation, and should be defederated. chinese.lol lemmy.doesnotexist.club 1 month ago:
Not with downvotes disabled 😉
- Comment on 2 Instances are being used for coordinated vote manipulation, and should be defederated. chinese.lol lemmy.doesnotexist.club 1 month ago:
Being able to disable downvoting is one of the best features Lemmy has and I wish more instances would do it.
Voting here doesn’t influence your feed and largely serves to spread negativity. Turning it off has a negligible impact on usability and an undeniable advantage when people decide their feelings matter more than someone else’s, like whatever this is.
We’ve de-federated from both the instances being used for manipulative voting.
- Comment on Anyone know of any active alternative communities? eg goth, tattoo, punk etc. 1 month ago:
Awesome mate. Glad you found something you feel comfortable helping with!
- Comment on Anyone know of any active alternative communities? eg goth, tattoo, punk etc. 1 month ago:
That’s why I suggested asking others to adopt some of the slower communities that are already out there. 😉
There’s bound to be others who are interested, you’ve already gotten a few bites with this post.
- Comment on Anyone know of any active alternative communities? eg goth, tattoo, punk etc. 1 month ago:
Anything that isn’t in the current mainstream tends to be in short supply on Lemmy. People haven’t gotten used to the idea that other people aren’t already running those communities for them. I think they’re still working up the bravery to be more active/figuring out the platform a d if it’s worth the effort.
As others suggested you could start some communities up yourself. Maybe another option is digging up some of the dead communities and making a post asking others if they’re interested in taking them over? That’s worked for a couple communities in the past.
- Comment on Anyone know of any active alternative communities? eg goth, tattoo, punk etc. 1 month ago:
Found a few on lemmyverse, apologies if they aren’t what you’re looking for or you already knew about them. This isn’t really my scene.
!gothmoe@ani.social
!gothindustrial@lemmy.world
!tattoos@lemmy.ml
!cyberpunk@lemmy.zip
!punk_rock@lemmy.ca
There may be more if you can come up with other terms to search for.
- Comment on Federated Blogging Options 2 months ago:
Some people use Lemmy. If you create a community and set it to moderator only mode you’ll be able to post updates as new threads that are federated without random people starting conversations outside of the posts.
- Comment on Google To Allow Double Serving Ads. 2 months ago:
Holy shit this is the first I’ve heard of Playlet. Giving it a go now and it’s already impressive.
- Comment on jellies 2 months ago:
Very cool pieces, thanks for sharing!
- Comment on Is it rude to reply using English under posts in a language you can’t speak? 2 months ago:
I don’t think it’s a major offense to reply in your own language but since most of Lemmy is English speaking I try to respect the spaces that are clearly meant for something else.
I like to translate what I’m posting to whatever language the community is using. If I mention I’m using a translator the OP or another commenter will reply in English if they feel comfortable. !bubatzgartenclub@lemmy.world is one that comes to mind where this has happened in the past.
- Comment on How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"? 2 months ago:
I agree.
Lemmy is still finding its feet and I think things like this will improve as it continues to grow and mature.
While Lemmy has been around since before the reddit drama, many of the large surges in users have been reddit refugees. As a result a lot of the apps we have are ports of reddit apps that the devs slapped together in a hurry to let users pivot to Lemmy. As time passes we’re seeing a number of new apps pop up with Lemmy specific features, and some of the older apps are still/finally being updated to be more feature rich.
The software Lemmy runs is also changing fairly rapidly so there’s some feature disparity between the webui and the various apps. Part of the normal growth process for a younger social media imo, but frustrating at times.
- Comment on How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"? 2 months ago:
At the bottom of the page on every Lemmy instance there’s a link that will show you the instances it’s federated and de-federated from. Look for the link labeled ‘Instances’ from a web browser. Here’s the link for the lemmy.world that your account is on-
- Comment on How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"? 2 months ago:
This assumes the department or people involved with fulfilling these requests hasn’t already been compromised or shut down. The request means nothing when it never gets looked at.
- Comment on How the fuck do I find out where and when all these protests and rallies are happening? 2 months ago:
I only know about it because I happened to see their announcement when they launched the instance. It sounds like it was a reddit movement before they came to Lemmy.
- Comment on How the fuck do I find out where and when all these protests and rallies are happening? 2 months ago:
Just an FYI the 50501 group launched a Lemmy instance somewhat recently.
