Also more of a commenter than a poster. Making myself post, but I really feel all my posts are way less high-quality than my comments usually are.

As a gamer who mostly has no idea about the relative popularity of different genres it is interesting to learn this from your comment on Fedigrow.

What do you mean by this?

I do sometimes see a link post on Lemmy (often on some general community like !games) and copy it to (usually more-specific, like gaming genres: think copying from !games to !rpgs) communities I am active in (or sometimes ones I am not but am aware of: if I see a strategy game post I’ll put it in all the relevant strategy game communities I know of), and figure it is alright because I always see a little “cross-posted to:” and the community I got it from, so I figure that is good enough for credit. Probably obvious I got it somewhere else, and easily clickable to find out where. (Or sometimes the little communities are just the communities I myself already posted it to.) Is this a bad assumption and I should stop?

I do it because I want conversation in the specific communities, and for things that could go in more specific communities to not only get talked about in one giant umbrella when the smaller niches already exist on Lemmy. Especially because I think there is a valid reason to not be on !games. Maybe you are not interested in most posts there, just some subgenres, or like me, you are sick of the ragebait-but-also-probably-true-news-so-not-off-topic-and-allowed posts.

I am fine stopping though, less work for me, and as life gets busier I have less time for Lemmy anyways.

I admit I exclude .ml from my crossposting bonanza because of all the political drama I hear about but never bothered to look into, because I feel I’ll end up drawn into a political slapfight. Just look at all the comments here about .ml, whether justified or not (not sure and not about to try to figure out). I do not sub to anything on .ml and mostly look at Subscribed though, so I know I am not taking any of their content and copying it elsewhere, unless it was first copied from .ml to something I do look at. I also don’t really look at the instance someone is commenting from unless I suspect trolling or we interact a lot though, so I am not being nasty to .ml users for just being on .ml, either. I know a lot of people who do not have anything to do with the political drama are there too because it is recommended as the Lemmy dev’s instance, and I do not expect everyone to litmus test every social media for political drama before joining it.

I am insanely guilty of the content dump, figuring it’ll prove a community active, but aside from “awww!” comments on !bunnies@lemmy.world where there just is not much to build off of, I also reply to almost every comment I get because I also want to have conversations.

Hey you are right, thank you!

For any other mods unaware of this feature, it only works on posts in communities you mod.

Wait, we did? I’m a mod and had no idea I could see peoples’ votes. How do I do that? I say, as I probably will never use it until I start seeing my communities consistently getting downvotes on inoffensive posts that have no misinformation and are clearly on topic.

!meta@ani.social

All the communities I mod are niche enough that I don’t think every 24 hours is strictly necessary, though I am active enough to hit that requirement. Something big like !games@lemmy.world definitely needs that kind of requirement, but my quiet little communities are probably okay with twice a week, although I do check Lemmy about everyday anyways—more active users tend to be more likely to be mods.

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Hey thanks for bringing this to my attention!

On one hand I did often see toxicity downvoted on Reddit, and the very few times I saw spam it was correctly heavily downvoted.

I also often saw subs with “be civil!” as a rule frequently let comments that made good points but just had to throw in an unnecessary insult at the end, even when the person they replied to did not bring any kind of aggression at all. Or comments that were nothing but an insult, as long as the person they were insulting expressed an unpopular opinion. And I often saw unpopular opinions, expressed politely; that weren’t “well it’s just my opinion of course, you are free to disagree :) but I think it would be best for everyone if the Jews were all gassed,” that were not obviously hateful opinions expressed in polite wording but that actually added to the discussion, get downvoted. I often hold majority opinions online so I am not usually the victim of this, but man did it feel bad seeing a reasonable, friendly person who maybe wasn’t as anticorporate as everyone else or as informed about things get punished and shown disapproval in a way that should have been reserved for comments of “fucking idiot :)”. Which actually received upvotes for being said to someone expressing a non-hateful opinion politely and reasonably.

I also see all that unkind behavior on Lemmy, though less often. Poke your head in enough “bad news” posts, especially “company does anticonsumer move” posts on !gaming@lemmy.world and you’ll probably see some of what I am talking about. I have since learned to either just read the title, or click to the news article and avoid the comments like the plague if I do not want to be upset by “amazing explanation of a point you agree with followed by mean words to someone who wasn’t being offensive,” or “people online fighting again” or “comment whose only content is insults gets upvoted”

So I was browsing the Internet as per usual, and was very surprised to see this ad probably directed at the elderly having an anime-style image. Anyone know what it’s from?

Saw someone promoting Lemmy Federate again, something they said in their promotion made me wonder:

What happens if a user is the first to follow a community, so their instance’s bot unsubscribes, and then the user unsubscribes?

I guess I am just used to seeing very negative interactions online, especially from two opposing positions, and like to make it extra super clear I’m not trying to be an asshole to you or shit on you, given just how many times I’ve seen “I disagree” expressed alongside insults, or at least an aggressive tone even if there’s no explicit name calling. Call it the pendulum swinging too hard the other way as backlash from it, and a product of me desperately trying to ensure I’m not being misunderstood (it happens!). Thaanks for the details!

I feel like you also have a bit of an advantage because people who don’t really care about lemmy might not care about an address like lemmy.zip, but crazypeople.online gets attention, as would ani.social from anime enjoyers like myself.

Thanks for your work on ani.social :) and probably the rest of the Fediverse, I think I have seen you on my many, many Elevator7009 alts including the dead Kbin ones.

Good to see crazypeople.online still having steady growth.

These benefits are honestly things that do not enhance my personal experience, but I hope others find them useful. I’m probably forever going to be the “not for me but the community has outvoted me so I guess I can let it exist without complaint for the common good even if I personally don’t like it” guy. Thank you for your explanation. You might want to put these benefits somewhere on the Lemmy Federate project sites so people can learn about them.

for almost every community

Do you have to sign a community up to have it put on Lemmy Federate, or is everyone’s community glommed up regardless of whether it was signed up for it? How does this work? I want to know how it works, all the things an admin needs to know, or maybe a mod, not just a list of benefits.

Again, thank you for engaging with me, I realize my questions and bias against it are probably seeping through and making me appear more hostile to you than I am. I don’t really like the tool but I notice a lot of others do and you did put it forward and, I think, create it with good intentions for the Fediverse, and I (have not contributed any code to the Fediverse’s wellbeing) thank you for that.

Thanks for bringing this up, I wouldn’t have thought of that one myself at all!

Since you are the creator, could you point me to learn how it works besides “now every post from communities signed up will show up on your instance?”

I’ll also admit part of my prejudice is because I’ll never touch All with a ten foot stick, so I end up not experiencing any benefit personally, and I do not mind checking out communities on their instance if they seem to have no posts on mine.

Thanks for replying civilly by the way, and not just flipping out on me for my position on lemmy-federate. I am not sure I’d have the same grace in your position, which is why I’m incredibly careful about putting things I make out there online in public lol.