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(I'm going to put one feature/issue in each comment to make it easier to discuss each topic individually, hope that's ok)

Enhancement requests: Not sure if this is better addressed lemmy-wide or here, but: New users may not know the difference between instances. Would having the "Communities" tab default to All instances be better than Local instances?

(I'm going to put one feature/issue in each comment to make it easier to discuss each topic individually, hope that's ok)

Known Issue: Probably a lemmy-wide issue. When new users sign up, there's no error message for "username has been taken", "username too short/long" or any other exception. You have to do trial-and-error to figure out how to get past the sign-in screen. Some sort of exception handling and user message would help greatly.

Immediate workaround would be to put something on the signup page to explain this ("username has to be between X to Y characters; if you see a spinning icon forever, chances are the username was taken already")

I don't think it'll happen on July 1st, but it'll probably happen in a few years. It will be more of a slow decline.

porn was the backbone of many a community.

So i asked the same question on asklemmy and someone who looked at the code told me the opposite. I don't really know enough about lemmy to know which is true, but just fyi: https://lemmy.world/post/210506?scrollToComments=true

So i asked the same on asklemmy and someone who looked at the code told me the opposite. I don't really know enough about lemmy to know which is true, but just fyi: https://lemmy.world/post/210506?scrollToComments=true

Me neither. I don't care who does it, as long as it's done right.

Yes, this can't be stressed enough. Expect to be shouting into a void for 2-3 days. That's the price of being an early adopter!

I created [email protected] a few days ago. Now it has >4k subscribers. I credit that to my meticulous reposting of content from other places (90% from /r/maliciousompliance, 10% from elsewhere). It took a bit of effort but now people are posting their OC.

A site like this needs to reach critical mass to be self-sustaining. I see a lot of new communities with 0-1 posts from the mod. That’s not nearly enough to get people engaged - users are going to see that it’s a ghost town and leave. Reposts are a temporary measure to get past the chicken-and-egg problem of "there's nothing here so people aren't visiting" and "people aren't visiting so they aren't posting stuff".

Reddit itself exists on reposts. As a (ex-)Redditor of 12 years, I've seen countless reposts. Ideally, reposts make up a small percentage of the content, but given the small nature of this universe, I'd personally encourage and advocate reposting of content from elsewhere to kickstart discussion.

thanks! I'm on lemmy but just saw /m/BotIt on kbin yesterday, and I assume you're the main party behind that. Admirable work, I'm going to give it a try some time!^___^

Airtags aren't as customizable. Just tape a phone to all your valuables, so if you lose it you can use the "Find my Phone" function.

And be sure to tape a phone to your phone so you don't misplace that too.

What the hell? Since when did newsweek get into the business of spewing misinformation?