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[–] isdfoa 46 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Imo I feel like given the size of the community there is too much segregation. All these android related topics should all just be in /c/android until we reach a critical mass that more organization is required. No one will bother to subscribe to all of those with 0 engagement.... And plz don't delete posts we are so small here! As long as it isn't spam I'm ok with questions etc. here. The rules shouldn't be the same as reddit as the community isn't the same (at least not yet).

[–] Madbrad200 13 points 1 year ago

agree. this is one thing I hate about discord communities too, so many servers have like a million channels but minimal activity. like, you're killing your own server by segregating everything.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hello everyone, why the mods are removing genuine posts? I know they break some rules you have. TBH there are too many rules, and this is very early stages of lemmy so don't be so strict. You guys are doing a too good job in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These are the same mods from the Android subreddit. That should answer everything you need to know.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I understand why they are strict on Reddit. The sub is huge, but here, they are imo too strict considering how small the platform is.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I'd give you a genuine answer, but I'm afraid these mods will ban me like they banned me from Reddit for having a negative opinion about Samsung.

I'm so glad we gave these mods power of the Android community on Lemmy. Way to go, us!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

The cool thing about this platform is that we can just leave. There's another android community at [email protected]

[–] itadakimasu 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Honestly, I’m okay with them banning people for being negative, there are SO many places you can go to do that if you want to, especially with all the servers here on Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Oh I'd love to see exactly how you got banned. Chances are it was for a tad more than just "having a negative opinion about Samsung".

[–] Sterben 4 points 1 year ago

Same, got banned for "spam", even though I am pretty sure I never broke any rules.

I asked for more reasons then, but they straight up ignore and mute me for 28 days.

I will never subscribe to anything related to the old reddit mods.

I am glad I am not the only one thinking this way.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think they just removed my post. I don't think it broke any rules?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hi there, I hope you were able to catch some of the other comments but memes are captured under rule #3:

Describe images/videos: Please provide an explanation in the self-post body when sharing images or videos. Memes are not allowed.

Sorry for the late reply, I was away for much of the weekend until yesterday and thought we had gotten a reply out to you. Based on this discussion, we created [email protected] as a compromise between folks who want memes and those who do not. We've been aiming to find a balance between being more lenient during this period while also remaining responsive to user reports, which we did receive for yours.

You can typically find an explanation of the removal reasons in the modlog (when accessed from the community sidebar). Unfortunately, Lemmy doesn't seem to be handling user notifications too well but hopefully this improves in the near future.

Edit: Apologies for the multiple posts. App went haywire on me... Lemmy growing pains!

[–] Thteven 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is exactly the kind of shit I was worried about when people were talking about attracting reddit mods to Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel bad for you. Deleting a post which has already has a around 250 points, and around 60 comments SMH. Either delete them early or write a comment warning.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

My points keep getting reset every couple of days, so I don't care too much about that. I think I was making a valid point though. Obviously people were pretty engaged with it.

Cool thing about lemmy is if these mods want to be jerks, I'll just go to another android community on another instance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for this feedback! Based on this discussion, we've created [email protected] as a compromise between folks who want memes and those who do not. Hope that helps! We've definitely been aiming to be a bit more lenient as things take shape while trying to also be responsive to user reporting.

Always happy to check in again for a pulse check. Hopefully Lemmy can implement a better way to let directly notify folks when a post is removed, but in the meantime everyone can access the modlog from the community sidebar. Please let me know if not!

[–] Clipboards 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely floored at how active this instance & community is. It's like I never left Reddit.

Cheers!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Lemmy is pretty cool but I'll have to admit the overall user base is too small for now. Don't get me wrong I want this to replace reddit but there simply isn't enough communities to fill every niche like reddit. The communities that fill a specific niche that I am subscribed to on here have less than 100 users.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

@User17w9a @Clipboards I disagree. Are you looking at all communities or just lemmy.world? As long as you are looking across the fediverse there are plenty, in fact, way more than reddit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Which subs? A lot of subreddits I used to enjoy are now just a shell of what they once were.

[–] ayyndrew 3 points 1 year ago

It really depends on your interests. If you like Linux, Android, or some leftist topics, Lemmy is quite good. But most other fields are still lacking

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

you used URLs for your subreddit links but fwiw you can make links clickable for users from other servers by linking to (/c/[email protected])

like this

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there an android gaming community anywhere?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Not that I'm aware of, but Android gaming is welcome on the main [email protected] community as well!

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[–] acrobaticpenguin23 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would like to recommend Motorola . Also why are there so many deleted comments already?

[–] sag 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Make one community for androidapps

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yep, the AndroidApps & AndroidGaming subs were very active and very informative

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can we get a fairphone one?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I would love to follow a fairphone community

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it would be great if there was a PC hardware sub as part of this instance, since it is all about tech.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Good to be here! I'm going to try calling this instance my home because of my love of all things Android, its relatively small instance size, and my last instance's service availability being quite poor.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hm. Checked few of listed communities - only automated link posts to the related news sites... Not exactly what I would expect from a community.

[–] Thteven 8 points 1 year ago

They're shooting themselves in the foot by fracturing the conversations like that if you ask me. If there were a million subscribers here it would be a different story but the sub is still growing and it's just making it harder to talk to people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately none of it is automated. They're fresh ones and we are working on bringing over more of the Reddit counterparts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

:) Ok, not yet automated. But most of these communities look like an RSS feeds from the news sites. May be interesting for people who want to have everything in one place, but I'm more interested in more personal posts.

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