laverabe

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[–] laverabe 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'll try lemmy.zip. Waiting for approval now. They have to manually verify all accounts so I'll check back tomorrow.

[–] laverabe 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Honestly I know nothing about the other servers and picking one is a bit of a headache. I know the team that runs LW is very competent from an IT perspective. To go on another server I'd have to understand who ran it to make sure they truely understood the technical and legal issues in the long run. Is there a site that objectively compares the different instances?

[–] laverabe 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Under settings there is "Import/Export Settings" on the right side. It turns your profile settings data (including subscriptions and blocklists) into a json file.

Then you create a login on any other server, go to settings and import the file.

It does not transfer your comments and posts or any other community mod stuff. It is essentially a new account, but with the same user configurable settings.

[–] laverabe 4 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Yeah I have no problem moving it, but I think it might be actually more useful keeping it on LW?

It's more of a roadsign to point from the most popular instance to lesser popular instances. If we put the sign on a lower traffic instance less people will see it.

[–] laverabe 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

UnitedHealthcare Group should be in the picture as well, with Andrew Witty ~~$18.8 M (from 2021)~~ 23.5 M last year, according to another commenter.

Witty is the CEO of the group. Thompson was only CEO of UnitedHealthcare - one of the parent conglomerates' many subsidiaries.

[–] laverabe 5 points 1 week ago

I just unsubscribed from almost all lemmy world communities and checked scaled and it's actually a decent sort. Before it was just spam and junk. Not sure why it changed so much.

[–] laverabe 1 points 1 week ago

[email protected] - Nature and science discussion and posts

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[–] laverabe 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

It's a systematic problem. The large LW communities have a stranglehold that prevents new ones from taking hold.

For Lemmy to improve, there needs to be a very easy way to find new communities, particularly on different instances!

Currently there is no way to navigate communities on other instances without a direct keyword search, or by opening a private window to get the link directly from the other server as a logged off user. Clicking the 'Communities' link also needs to default to rising new communities, and not to existing communities.

There also needs to be a major change to the hot/active sorting algorithm to favor small communities with higher engagement % over large ones with higher net upvotes (lower engagement %). The top ten communities should be changing from month to month - otherwise large communities will only get further entrenched and moderation will only get worse.

This is a change that the devs would have to implement. Otherwise dbzer0 or lemmyzip or whatever other server that grows next will just eventually turn into LW and the same problem will repeat.

Does anyone know if these ideas have already been discussed in a closed pull request?

[–] laverabe 15 points 1 week ago (16 children)

I am definitely considering switching from lemmy.world after the blatent censoring of posts and comments from large communities that happened the past few days.

[–] laverabe 1 points 1 week ago
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test post #3 (self.test8366118)
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test 3

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Austrailian road train (libreddit.projectsegfau.lt)
 
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Dull Men's Club (lemmy.world)
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I found this community and thought it was kinda interesting.

"Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. "

[email protected]

 

An attempt to start an index of communities on Lemmy for people to find new topics.

[email protected]

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Life and things (self.index)
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Fun/Animals (self.index)
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Science/History (self.index)
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This community is intended to act an index of new and active smaller and harder to find communities. Post new communities in one of the 5 primary posts.

Anyone can post new communities, just please abide by the format in the sidebar.

You can find new daily communities with this link:

~~lemmy.world/communities?listingType=Local&sort=New&page=1~~

~~It's not the best tool, but it allows you to see which communities have some activity and which are just dead spuds.~~

EDIT: There is a need for diversification from LW as recent events show the admins have a different view of censorship than a majority of the community members. Please use this link: https://lemmyverse.net/communities to diversify subscriptions beyond the two largest instances and feel free to post them here.

I'm open to suggestions on the descriptions of the 5 primary topics - I just ran with what I thought was a good descriptor of 5 different categories.

Feel free to use your own personal subscriptions of communities to add here. The idea is that this place can be a community pasteboard.

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They changed the algorithm on Dec 7, 2016.

Before: https://web.archive.org/web/20161206000344/https://www.reddit.com/

After: https://web.archive.org/web/20161208000333/https://www.reddit.com/

Best guess, based off the vote count differences of those two days, is that if you see a vote with 100,000 count, it's likely closer to 20,000 count (divide by roughly 5 or so).

There was a post about it by KeyserSosa on Dec 6, so it's not some conspiracy or anything.

I figured YSK.

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volunteers needed (lemmy.world)
 

Need a few additional mods to aid in occasionally removing posts or comments that violate the rules in the sidebar, mostly incivility.

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