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Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by nottorp »

davidcollantes wrote: post #17
graypegg wrote: post #3

What are the current solutions for discoverability in Lemmy? Having a tombstone on Reddit pointing people towards a specific instance is good but it’s still hard to be the definitive community when the namespace isn’t as restricted any more. Maybe that’s better?

I don’t see this approach as a viable one, but time will tell. I never subscribed to the Startrek subreddit, but having it on an isolated website instead of been agglomerated on a solution like Reddit will have an engagement decrease, especially when people who subscribed to the sub still participates in other subreddits.

> will have an engagement decrease

That's great! A community should have interesting discussion, not engagement!

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by f0e4c2f7 »

Hadn't heard of Lemmy. This seems pretty good. Reddit might actually be in trouble if other subreddits follow suit. Someone should make a dedicated lemmy site (or other site) that acts as a directory for "subreddits" to each lemmy site so it's easier to browse. An equivalent "frontpage" would be cool too if that was possible to setup somehow (seems like it should be with fediverse)

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by malermeister »

stcroixx wrote: post #40
bognition wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Something that Reddit admins and users constantly miss is: "its the mods that make a subreddit amazing". People openly talk about this as the reason that HackerNews continues to be such a vibrant community. Replacing the mods will change the community, full stop. Could be for the better , could be for the worse.

Some people feel that way. Me, I'm all for basic site-wide rules and automated moderation, as little as possible, and let me decide on the rest. Open it back up. There's no way it should just re-direct people to a competing site because that's what the old mods prefer.

That community was run by the old mods. Without mods, no subreddit. You're welcome to start your own with your mod preferences, though.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by EA-3167 »

fsflover wrote: post #35
EA-3167 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What was the other option, realistically? There are barely other options today, never mind 15 years ago.

I guess it's fine that 15 years ago the users chose Reddit due to the lack of good alternatives. But today people should be aware of the problem and go to decentralized platforms.

Once you've built a community and a "library" though, as we see, it's hard to up and move it. At least, until the guy who owns the library threatens to burn it all down.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by Stephen304 »

davidcollantes wrote: post #47
fsflover wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> isolated website Did you hear about federation?

I understand it is federated, apologies. What I meant was, to engage with the new StarTrek Lemmy you need to know their address. On Reddit everything is at https://reddit.com/ . It is frictionless.

I'm not sure if you're aware, but only the first remote user needs to know the address. After that the content gets federated to the feeds of other instances automatically, including the new/hot pages where popular upvoted posts from the star trek instance can show up on the front page of other instances, allowing new people to discover, join the "sublemmy", and comment often without realizing it's hosted on a different server.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by fsflover »

davidcollantes wrote: post #47
fsflover wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> isolated website Did you hear about federation?

I understand it is federated, apologies. What I meant was, to engage with the new StarTrek Lemmy you need to know their address. On Reddit everything is at https://reddit.com/ . It is frictionless.

It seems you just got used to Reddit. I don't see how knowing the subreddit is (much) easier than knowing a website.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by BizarreByte »

stcroixx wrote: post #16

And for those of us with no interest in following the mods, can /r/Startrek be opened again? If the old mods moved platforms, there’s no need to keep this private.

Seriously though, it's absurd that such a small group of incredibly privileged users (mods) get to speak for the majority and make decisions for them.

Reddit should be removing these mods, adding new ones, and reopening subs. Mods shouldn't get to hold entire communities hostage when they throw a tantrum.

Anyone can moderate a subreddit, these mods aren't special and they're completely replaceable. They should be reminded of this.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by q1w2 »

smcleod wrote: post #15

Anddddd the new site is down.

I also got an error. Lemmy is distributed? No centralized login, so I need to give my email and create an account on every SUB?

So there's no homepage with all my subscriptions?

This is not a valid replacement unless we're going to bring back RSS and start up a local reader again that can somehow auto-create accounts and re-submit comments.

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