Those are great, but somehow all the cans that i am buying now seem to come with their own “zip”. Haven’t used the opener in a good while.

Sleeping pad shnozzle bags (pump sacks).

Not starting guides, like jlai.lu it’s there but some links deep hidden. This is such an obvious user experience problem that this - in my opinion - needs to be featured prominently in the main sidebar. Almost everywhere you have to dig deep to even understand that you cannot find all the communities hosted on other instances, unless you use these tools, or have a huge instance like world so basically everything is subscribed to by somebody.

That’s why mander.xyz, lemmy.ca and aussie.zone get my gold award :)

Oh, i have missed that. Sorry! Updated my comment.

I was lamenting that instances don’t link to community browsers / crawlers.

The link you sent has a link to this post, https://jlai.lu/post/541698, which has links in the Guides (en Anglais) section to external sites, world’s getting started guide and some other, both linking to the dead browse.feddit.de link. Really hard to find, got to be really dedicated i guess :) And now the link is even dead, haha.

Use the search and select “federated” “Communities” filter

This only finds communities that someone on that instance already subscribed to. Absolutely not feasble for small instances and niche topics.

Know about the Lemmyverse because it’s in their guides

What guides though, that’s what i mean. Or can you link me the feddit.org, slrpnk, sopuli etc guide?

Where does it link to a community browser (scraper)? I could not find it.

Yeah that would be a good idea maybe. Pretty dead community though.

discuss.online also features only the dead link in the “starting guide” btw.

Iwas going through instances and it is actually staggering. This is what i have collected so far:

Best practice (Link from main sidebar)

lemmy.ca (but also links to dead browse.feddit.de link)
mander.xyz (but also links to dead browse.feddit.de link)
aussie.zone (links to dead browse.feddit.de link only)

Tolerable practice (Link from “starting guide”)

lemm.ee (dead browse.feddit.de link but also lemmyverse)
lemmy.world (dead browse.feddit.de link)
sh.itjust.works (copy of world’s guide so same problem)
discuss.online (dead browse.feddit.de link)
jlai.lu (bravo! :) *edited

Intolerable anti-fedi practice :) (no findable mention of community browsers)

lemmy.zip
slrpnk.net
lemmy.ml
sopuli.xyz
programming.dev
midwest.social
feddit.it
feddit.org
feddit.dk
feddit.nu
feddit.uk
feddit.nl
fedia.io
lemmy.blahaj.zone
lemmy.dbzer0.com

I find this really disappointing. How the hell are people on these instances, especially small ones even find niche communities on other instances? It’s not like lemmyverse gets discussed much anymore.

@Blaze@feddit.org falling asleep with a smile on their face tonight :)

Thanks for the update!

Never happened to me, i use jerboa a lot.

Totally agree. But i don’t know if there is any hope, so many fedi people seem to not want any normies (people not working with computers i guess) entering.

!bicycles@lemmy.ca
!bicycling@lemmy.world
!casual_cycle_uk@feddit.uk

I know. But not everybody seems to share your enthusiasm for locking the communities on world.

Looking at your examples:

The movie ones: To me the world one looks like the way healthier community, a lot more different users posting stuff, on lemm.ee it’s mostly some power users creating all the content, actually really only moderators of that community. I find you talking about how it is the more active community a bit dishonest tbh. Same i found with the dataisbeautiful one. I have a feeling you care more about computers (fedi infra) than the topics.

The gaming one somebody else told you their opinion on it, and why it is a good community.

The android ones… i don’t really have an opinion on it. IIRC at first they were all on the world (or.ml?) one and then created the lemdro.id instance. What about the .ml one by the way? Why is it only ever a problem when world has a community that exists elsewhere?

Generally i don’t think having multiple active c’s is all that problematic, at least they are active.

From your message, I feel like people on LW want to keep communities on “LW instances”, I’m wondering why.

Because these communities are already there and are active, that’s why. Not everybody has to share your enthusiasm for removing communities from lemmy.world.

LW rules still allow them to namesquat that community

So i had another look. I think it’s actually kinda crazy that you demand they should lock the dataisbeautiful community. The world one has a bunch of different users posting stuff to it, in the mander one it is 50% you. The mods are all active lemmy users, max three months since last comment (and we don’t know when they last logged in to lemmy). You just claim it is an unmanaged community, but it looks just fine to me, no spam or whatever. And i don’t agree at all that mods necessarily need to be actively posting into the communities they mod.

Quoting the quote where you mentioned me in that other topic

You can easily pick the “wrong” community on a topic, and see zero content when there’s another one full of posts but…

This does not apply to the world community, but i guess to the ones other than mander, ml and world:

The ml community is also not locked btw.

And i don’t see how this could be fixed in the lemmyverse, having multiple communities for same topic? It is just part of how this works? It is also kinda easy to tell by these search results which communities might be active. And if you’re interested in the topic, you’d subscribe to all of them (active ones). That’s how it was a year ago too, when i looked for communities of my interest.

Honestly i understand you less after looking into it more. I mean i get the desire to spread out communities and i think it would be a good thing, but you can’t just force your will onto other people and their ideas like that.

LW is so large than they have to be extra cautious with their updates. If they would be 20% of the total Lemmy population, and 30 of the top 100 communities compared to now, they would probably be more at ease with “me can mess up a bit, it’s okay”. Having them as a cornerstone of the whole platform puts them constantly under the spotlight.

Well then we agree that it seems to be fine how they do it.

Thanks! I assumed and now confirmed via modlog that this post had already been unstickied a year ago.

What does “other instances” mean in a federated context?

It means that the instance admins have a higher responsibility towards their own users, mods and communities wishes.

I have another example for this !dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz

Yeah well i don’t think they should lock that community if the mod doesn’t want it to be locked. Do you really think that would be right? Should i go and demand the solarpunk bird community to be locked because world’s is more active? I think it’d be pretty bad if they did, not that i think they would. Also i don’t think that user you called out is part of world’s staff.

The paradox of choice is something you have deal with in the fediverse i guess, starts at choosing a server. I don’t think it should be that big of a deal, as long as communities can be found from the instances internal search.

0.19.5

I still don’t think they keep us from being upgraded to be mean.

one of the oldest

Damn, rooki taking swings at the higher ups.

LW staff “name squatting”

I have a feeling that LW staff would give a different reason for this. As they did with the community that you asked to be locked (not deleted, i misremembered this ;). And yes, that mod agreed and now the community is locked. That’s great! But i won’t hold it against world admins to not listen to people from other instances asking for communities to be locked, when the mods are still active users. If they did that i would have more of a problem with it. I think this turned out perfect? But if a mod doesn’t want to oblige to your requests, then so be it, i think that is just fair.

54% of the instances use it

Oh wow, i would have thought it would be more. I would like to be “up to date” and see all the images i uploaded and maybe delete some but i still i think it is a good idea that they are being cautious and i trust them on their judgement, i don’t believe they refrain from updating for shady reasons or out of spite or whatever.