Born and raised in London. Just a normal guy with a moral compass.
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So there’s a couple things. Inevitably hosting a video site is expensive as hell, not to mention getting brands to use something requires more than just users. For the former, recurring donations can take the pain away and is in the spirit of the Fediverse as we know it. But with advertising, you have a guarantee and as things develop, brands will go crazy to target their desired demographics. Which is something that the Fediverse isn’t really on board with from a fundamental point of view. All in all, it’s easy to say it was only a joke. That would be far more believable if not for the vindictive actions that followed. It’s not the first questionable thing Dansup has done and it won’t be the last. In this case I think he could’ve just posed the question and had an open discussion about it.
I’m glad that the community is supporting Hazycora for taking a moral stand.
My Android is my primary device so I don’t get the alt text. Also I feel like I’m letting you down, because so many times I will watch a video from the preview as I just want to watch the video silently and the only way to do that on mobile without messing with the whole systems volumes controls is the previews. 🥹
It’s worth noting that [email protected] is also similar and around.
Holy fuck. If that’s your answer, your group deserved to be deleted.
Having done a search, I found a Reddit link that essentially says soulism is the belief that freedom should be pursued over everything else and even said gravitational forces are something that the soulism movement aspires to overcome.
So if you strive for freedom, why don’t you set up an instance that reflects your values and aspirations?
Alice!
Every time you’ve created a community, I always lament that it’s at a bad time and promise to check out your instance later. Just now I finally checked and sweet potato pie, you need to chill. It’s wonderful that you’re proactive and you’re trying to create an amazing instance for everyone. But less is more. Rather than having a hundred low activity communities, have a few that are the go to version of them in the Fediverse. Just my unsolicited advice as someone that wanted to come and commune with you, only to be overwhelmed by the sheer amount of communities you’ve created.
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Another one to add to your list of friends is [email protected]
I’ll try, but ultimately you need the likes of @[email protected] since he’s the heart of the Arsenal community.
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Updates are cool but I could see it people not caring for every announcement.
Not everything is for everyone. Some updates are cool, some updates are important (like the hotfix fallout from Immich and Paperless) and some are mundane. But I would like to create a culture of people reading about and discussing updates, enough so that developers start to post the updates themselves or comment in update posts.
This also allows people that don’t care for requests for help or troubleshooting to declutter their feeds.
That’s not a community I would like to foster. I wouldn’t be happy with people considering requests for help as clutter.
I’ve had this sitting in my inbox all day because to be quite frank with you, I found it troubling.
I can’t speak for everyone, but when I joined Lemmy, it was because I believed in decentralization amongst other things. So when you speak of fragmentation, my feelings are essentially akin to bafflement.
I’m just one person and am running a miniscule community to discuss a topic. I highly doubt that the members that have subscribed are going to stop posting in WORLD or ML.
You’re basically suggesting that the first group has some sort of right over smaller groups and that’s fundamentally untrue.
When willya started his Sex Memes community, NSFW memes was already up and running and has thousands of subscribers, however because of the way he runs his community, his is presently the most successful one. That doesn’t fragment the meme community, it strengthens it.
I don’t subscribe to the idea that the first or the biggest is the best. There’s plenty of, let’s call them legacy groups, on Lemmy, where the moderators have no presence whatsoever and what, everyone should use their groups? No.
The best groups, with the best moderators and the best admins will rise to the top and they absolutely should, because they’re the best. Not because of where they’re hosted or when they were started. It’s why I’m so vehemently against automatically merging groups, because let’s be honest, some moderators are dick heads and don’t deserve to bathe in the success of groups that keep their users safe and engaged.
Anyway, thanks for the suggestion, but no thanks. Though I promise that my tiddly community shan’t steal perceivable engagement from WORLD any time soon. And if it does, it’ll be great for the Fediverse as WORLD is, comparatively speaking, too big already anyway.
Prior to the posts being deleted, their scores were overwhelmingly positive. It just so happens that some people weren’t appreciative and that’s fine. Not everything is for everyone.
I know that before I set up my N8N, I had no way of tracking releases that weren’t intrusive and I know what when people posted releases, it gave me something to look into.
There was even a time when because a release was posted, when someone encountered a problem, I was able to identify it and help them. To me that’s what a community is. Sharing and helping.
Even now, I’m still excited enough to watch the terminal as I do docker-compose pull while I drink my tea and when things that my N8N missed pop up, I rush like an excited child to tell people that an update for something they may be running is out. And since the other self hosted communities don’t appreciate it, why wouldn’t I create one that does?
I added your one.
As for why. I just explained this recently actually. What I love about Lemmy is that there can be so many different flavours of communities that you can find the one that’s a perfect fit for you.
I was a prolific poster in WORLD and loved it, I even made a post thanking everyone for helping there, but suddenly people decided they had a problem with posting updates and so I figured I’d find a better fit. Ramped up my activity on ML and then similarly people decided to take umbrage with the way links were posted, after a bit of kerfuffle, I ended up adding a line about what each service does to every release I posted.
Yesterday there were three releases that I notified the community about and today another three including a critical bug fix for something I posted yesterday.
As I went to clean out my inbox, I went to thank someone who notified me of a release and noticed I couldn’t submit the response, when I investigated further, I saw my post was removed. Not just that post, all posts. I loaded up Lemmy in my browser, looked at the modlog and saw a moderator removed them citing I was posting random GitHub links. That’s fine, as I said, different flavours, different fits. But I would’ve appreciated a heads up, especially as I feel I’ve done a lot to keep that community feeling active. Never mind though.
Luckily, when the kerfuffle occurred, I went looking for a host for a community whereby I wouldn’t have to worry about people complaining about me doing something I found valuable when others did it. Amusingly, I looked at selfhosted.forum and they didn’t have a selfhosted, so I continued to look and found libretechni.ca and ended up making the community myself.
I just want to be able to post when software updates come out and help whomever I can with the paltry knowledge I’ve acquired without offending or bothering anyone. It’s not a slight on anyone or a criticism of anyone, just a desire to try and share the excitement, joy and fulfillment I get from self hosting.
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Some tech in here but not general tech