Ruud is probably too busy right now but try getting in touch with one of the other .world admins.
Coelacanth
joined 1 year ago
Lemmy.ml has c/Community_Requests and I think it's about time we had that on .world too.
It's unlikely to topple Reddit regardless, but so long as the scalability proves functional enough to support recommending lemmy.world to non tech-savvy newbies I don't see this particular issue becoming problematic. Most of the larger recommended instances have open community creation anyway. I guess BeeHaw doesn't but people aren't really recommending it to newbies either.
Someone should probably try getting in touch with @[email protected] since he doesn't appear to be active that often and we have no other moderator here currently.
There are some AutoMod type bots that exist already for setting up Daily Discussion type threads and whatnot.
I love your optimism but I think you're grossly overestimating the capacity of the average Meta user to even grasp the topic, and that just goes for the handful percent of them who would care enough to listen in the first place.
I tend to agree, though it should be noted that the public access to vote information is part of the current backend and Kbins frontend just makes it available for everyone to see. WefWef for example also shows your point totals ("karma") on Lemmy and I'm sure many other 3rd party apps will too.
Someone raised this issue on the Lemmy GitHub today but it's unclear what stance the Devs will take.
I don't mind the badge by itself but the repeated Lemmy logo on both the icon and the banner next to eachother doesn't look good to me. Easiest solution is maybe to just remove the Lemmy icon from the banner and just have it be a football pitch with all the signatures? I also wouldn't mind the soccer ball being more prominent in the icon/badge somehow, but maybe that is just nostalgia for the old place and the comfort of the familiar.
Andretti is an established racing team that has already proven ambitious and successful in other disciplines, and has demonstrated a clear and strong interest in F1 specifically. Gene Haas essentially got talked into starting his team, is by all accounts not that invested and mostly cares about the free advertising for his CNC machines. I'm sure Americans would prefer a team prepared to invest money into the sport instead of one struggling to even approach the budget cap and resorting to cut the pitwall to three people to save resources.
I'm the other way around personally. He's not a world-beater but I think Fred gets a bad rep and 30m sounds reasonable.
Elanga for 30m is just a terrible deal though, and I say that as a Swede.
My first thought was AstroTurf too but honestly Lemmy is still small enough that I wonder if Meta even cares enough for it to pay for astroturfing here. They got more signups in a couple of hours than Lemmy got users in three years, and by several magnitudes even. Plus it's an inherently hostile demographic for them. They're better off investing in positive posting on Reddit, which I'm sure is what they're already doing.
Oh god the lingering germophobia as a result of the pandemic shining a massive spotlight on surface contamination and spread vectors has completely ruined me.