Following the other thread (550 upvotes and 366 comments at the moment: https://lemmy.world/post/16211417), one of the complaints that people had what that some communities only exist on lemmy.ml and don’t have alternatives on other instances.
Let’s discuss this and see if we can organize together.
I suggest to have one topic per comment so that is is easier to discuss.
!freecad@lemmy.ml, currently moderated by @zksmk@lemmy.ml @zksmk@slrpnk.net @zksmk@sopuli.xyz.
Could not find any current alternatives.
Any instance recommendations? Maybe programming.dev? Or a maker/craft-oriented instance?
!classical_music@lemmy.ml (@erpicht@lemmy.ml)
Possible alternative:
!fusionenergy@lemmy.ml and !fusion@lemmy.ml
Mods: @CHEFKOCH@lemmy.ml and @zksmk@lemmy.ml @zksmk@slrpnk.net @zksmk@sopuli.xyz
Could not find any current alternatives.
Any instance recommendations? Maybe mander.xyz? (@sal@mander.xyz)
- !dccomics@lemm.ee - no posts that I can see
Maybe !comicbooks@lemmy.world ?
Having everything on LW isn’t the same problem?
Centralization is still a problem, but LW doesn’t have as much propaganda and aggressive moderation
The definition of propaganda is subjective.
There is a lot westerns do not perceive as propaganda. As someone from the global south I can tell you.
Can you give an example? Are you talking about propaganda from a government or something else?
Too general.
Based on the activity on both !dccomics@lemmy.ml and !comicbooks@lemmy.world, seems enough for now.
They just moved to !collapse@lemm.ee, the post is pinned
Awesome - I switched my subs
- sffa.community?
- literature.cafe?
Yes, I just posted over there that:
So if there’s an issue with lemmy.ml, boycott it - unsubscribe, give the other communities on more agreeable instances your time and they will grow and prosper. If there isn’t a relevant alternative start one.
And this is a key step - identify where there aren’t alternatives and start them. It might also be worth compiling a list of the alternatives so people can make the switch.
It’s also worth bearing in mind that Lemmy isn’t like Reddit in that you could just passively consume content all day. If there’s a problem, we all need to roll our sleeves up and pitch in.
Worth also mentioning that !fedigrow@lemm.ee is a good place to discuss topics on how we can help Lemmy grow and thrive.
Simple Living: !simpleliving@lemmy.ml
!eudaimonia@lemmy.dbzer0.com : “A community about happy living. Thoughts and praxis about long-term wellbeing, contentment, and personal fulfillment.”
Librewolf’s official community is on ml sadly !librewolf@lemmy.ml
Might be worth to check with the team if they would mind moving to another instance.
I guess they didn’t really check which instance their community was hosted on
Lemmy.ml is the largest FOSS and Privacy instance, so it makes sense.
Or maybe it was the most popular server when the Librewolf devs decided on an instance for their community.
Could be, but given that Librewolf is FOSS and focused on Privacy, it makes sense and fits.
Possible alternatives?
- !crow_ompanions@feddit.de (fragile instance?)
- !corvids@sopuli.xyz (broader than crows)
@BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world (prolific poster) and @Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml (mod)
Thoughts?
I’m on .ml and have been considering making an account on another instance, but it seems like most major instances require an email. .ml did not require an email.
Email is optional on https://sh.itjust.works/signup
Instance URL checks out
Indeed it does, most of the time. The admins are pretty good at what they do.
Copy all the local only communities from each instance .world and .ml separately put in a excel spreadsheet control F search each community
Feel like that would be easier…
Feel free!
On my side I feel like most of https://lemmy.ml/communities are already covered. This post is for communities that other people have already identified as “not having alternatives” (see complaints on the other post), so they should know them already.
Good luck
Jellyfin: !jellyfin@lemmy.ml
Maybe something for https://lemmy.dbzer0.com ?
I just created !jellyfin@poweruser.forum
Creating the community isn’t the issue, usually it’s finding moderators
I mean, if your qualification for moderator includes “Not abusing powers to defend garbage extremist politics” then we currently have two communities that each have zero moderators.
Not sure if I got your comment correctly, are you implying that @rglullis@communick.news is going to power trip on the newly created !jellyfin@poweruser.forum, or do you mean something else?
No, just an implication towards the old lemmy.ml version of the community.
What I mean is, moving from a bad situation to an equally bad but improvable situation is still a good move. It might be better to have a small, unmoderated community than one governed by “pretend” moderators.
That said, if the above comment was pointing out a need to fulfill, as opposed to decrying the attempts at community replacement, then you could disregard my snide remark.
Got it!
Don’t worry about it for now. I will do it until someone steps up for it. Also, don’t forget that I am actually working on tooling to make this job easier, so having any type of growing community would be an excellent way to find out the real pain point for moderators and work on the solutions.
When I said moderator, I meant someone to bring people to the community as well 😅
For that, I really have no answer other than “help with fediverser, stick with one community, and post as much as possible in the promoted communities”.
No but I mean practically now, is anyone going to promote that new community to !jellyfin@lemmy.ml? Or do we expect people to hear about it by another mean?
Or do we expect people to hear about it by another mean?
Yes. Fediverser will help newcomers. Posting content in the “new communities” will help those already here. Everyone browses by all anyway, so the best way to promote new communities is by putting content there.
Wouldn’t https://lemmy.film or https://selfhosted.forum be better? Even https://libretechni.ca
Sorry to bring it to you, but https://lemmy.film/ has been down for probably six months.
What is the issue with dbzer0? It’s literally an instance with the largest piracy community of all of Lemmy
When I think of db0 I think of piracy or AI, Jellyfin is a media manager, when I think of it, I think of TV, film and self hosting.
Well, I’m pretty sure none of the Jellyfin users don’t stream their vacation movies
At least one does. But needless to say, there’s lots of legally owned content sitting on many NASs all across the world.
https://libretechni.ca/ is also down on my site, is the site supposed to be up?
Yep, I guess its having an outage. It’s been fine for weeks.
Who downvoted this? Why? 😵💫
It’s back up! 🎉
Oh nice! Only one admin though
Is one admin bad?
Single admin instances are fragile instances. One person is a single point of failure.
But if the primary admin buggers off with the hosting and/or domain, doesn’t that kill all instances?
If he decides to shut down the project, or something happens to him, the server will probably go down with him.
See vlemmy.net, lemmy.film, iusearch.fyi, and so on
Aha, makes sense. Though my beloved tf went down and that had multiple admins at one point.
I can easily create a community for jellyfin on https://selfhosted.forum, but I’d be more inclined to do it on https://poweruser.forum.