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Looks good to me as it allows people to grow the community they prefer.
Not sure about [email protected] as Blahaj admin's previously stated they wouldn't be comfortable hosting a JKR community, but worst case scenario even with just [email protected] and [email protected] that should be enough.
Edit: just discussed with Ada, she's fine hosting a Rowling critical group, but wouldn't want to host a group that supports her or her work though
Follow up to the discussion in this thread: https://literature.cafe/post/20498464
Given the variety of perspectives shared in that thread, I don't think that a single community will be able to satisfy everyone.
As such, I have come up wit the following split:
While it does fragment the userbase (always a risk with in the fediverse), it would put give individual users the maximum amount of choice for what posts they wish to see in their feed, and what topics they wish to discuss.
I am interested in hearing people's thoughts.
Hi doccod, thanks for the reply!
Let me know if you have any further questions or thoughts.
There is a debate with what to do with [email protected] . It's not that clear, I understand both sides.
Thanks, that was fast!
If you have time, you might want to change the format of the links in the sidebar to "instance agnostic" (e.g. [email protected] instead of https://literature.cafe/c/harrypotter), but it's not critical.
For the display names, you may want to prepend "[Closed]" instead of appending it. This way, for interfaces where the name may be truncated due to length, it will still be obvious that the community is closed. Additionally, community names starting with "[" will appear in a separate section of an alphabetized list, setting them apart from the rest of the communities. Again, not critical.
Thanks again for all your help today, and over the past year. Wishing you all the best!
Disappointing to hear, but understandable, and not unexpected.
Thank you @[email protected], for creating and hosting this server over the past year. I have very much enjoyed my time here.
Thank you for giving us two months notice. I have great respect for your transparency and humility.
All the best in your future endeavours! Hope to see you elsewhere on the Fediverse from time to time. Perhaps on [email protected]? :)
Deriving from the post history, [email protected] it'll be, then. Dear [email protected] it was an honour visiting your instance for all the great memes. See you all on the other side
Thank you for the post!
FYI, I have an alt that mods [email protected], so we should be able to either use it or close it depending on the community's decision
Let me preface this with a few remarks. I love this instance. I'm generally in favour of topic-specific instances, and I would like to extend my gratitude and appreciation to @[email protected] for creating and maintaining diagonlemmy.social.
However, there are a couple of drawbacks to diagonlemmy, and I think it is worth considering whether this community might be better served elsewhere.
This instance has only one admin, and they are not in a position where they can regularly monitor this instance, nor have they recruited any additional admins or even moderators. As an example, it took ~4 months for my local account to be manually approved.
This has not been a major problem so far, but it is risky. As this community grows, we could see a higher frequency of situations where prompt admin/mod action is necessary. We also run the risk of the instance going offline indefinitely with no way to know when (or even if) it might be fixed.
Blueberry has acknowledged this risk and even suggested that we might migrate to a more actively managed instance. I have much respect for their humility in suggesting this.
If we do choose to move, where should we go? From the existing communities, we have a few options:
I think the literature.cafe would be a nice match for the topic, but I am interested to hear what others think.
P.S. Image uploads are not enabled on this server, which I think might cause federation issues if a user on a remote instance attempts to upload an image. As much of the content posted here are memes, this would be an advantage of moving to another server.
Sorry, switched to this account in the meantime.
I would suggest to open a meta post giving two options
And see what people prefer. Would you like to create that post?
Maybe wait another week, perhaps early April? (But not April Fools day, as that could be confusing.)
Where would we go? [email protected]?
I think images are important and on diagonlemmy, I dont want to try to add images and break stuff.
Do images not work? I've been posting images and they seem fine...
Edit: Oh, I just realized that the images don't federate, and just appear like this:
Edit2: If you want to implement images, and need a new server to do it, that seems reasonable. An alternative would be to consolidate to [email protected], which already has image support and existing subscribers. If you are set on a separate HP server, you should see if floo.net or floonet.works is available. Could be funner than the .social TLD.
Edit3: I have to ask: If diagonlemmy currently has no image support, what purpose was [email protected] intended to serve? 99% of memes are image macros.
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.
It's up to debate, but to me if the mod isn't active for the community (e.g. posting regularly), they should ask for someone else to take up that role. And if nobody wants the role, and there is another active community to redirect too, it could be nice to lock the inactive community down and redirect to the active one.
I mod a few inactive communities (such as [email protected] ). If someone came to me and said "hey, we've been trying to get our own HP community active, you already have some people on yours, would you mind locking yours down as you don't seem to actively mod it, and redirect to ours?" I would definitely do it.
Also i don’t think that user you called out is part of world’s staff.
They are not, but at the same time the LW rules still allow them to namesquat that community.
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.
For the instance, as long as you take the big ones (LW, lemm.ee, SJW, dbzer0, lemmy.ca, etc.), your experience will indeed be the same. To know which community to post too, this is a different story, and I've seen a lot of people telling me "I stay on Reddit because when I when to post about a topic, there's a clear community where to. On Lemmy, there are two or three active communities competing for the same topic, and it's just confusing". Of course we should keep different communities for different folks (no one would consider merging lemmy.ml communities with LW's), but we can also reduce the confusion for a few core topics that can help new joiners to get settled
I still don’t think they keep us from being upgraded to be mean.
They are not, but as I said earlier, 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.
Hey,
Thanks for posting this!
There could definitely be some consolidation. I mod [email protected], the community hasn't been that active recently, mostly I think because the Lemmy demographic may have moved on from that universe.
The diagonlemmy seem to have gotten some traction with their memes, that's nice to see
Paging moderators and/or admins (main subs):
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Hey, Good Luck with your endeavors. Beware of mob brigading and "canceling" you. There is already [email protected] Make sure you have at least one or two moderators with additional technical sysadmin that will keep the instance up.
I think the biggest challenge at the start will be keeping community alive. I know from experience that if you are the only person posting it is disheartening, and it leads to very fast burnout.
Well, as always I'll recommend our small existing community [email protected]
Literature.cafe is a lovely instance, Gabe the admin is a very nice person.
Good luck with your instance, I'll probably visit
To put in concrete terms: I wouldn’t have any problem to create a HP community on a topic-specific instance like https://metacritics.zone. @blue_[email protected], would you be interested in that? I can make you mod if you want.
Keep it easy, I think a community such as [email protected] is more than sufficient for now
There is [email protected] if you want to join. There is some activity at the moment, but not enough to go for a dedicated instance.
Also, as the other comments have shown, the bigotry of the author does not help.
You should just need to write [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) in the comment box, and the link is generated automatically. Should work in both Lemmy and kbin at least, not sure about mbin but would make sense that it works there as well. :)
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
Moved to [email protected]
From a purely posts perspective, then yes, two communities would suffice. However, from a comments perspective, I think the middle community may still be necessary.
Folks in [email protected] would likely not appreciate Harry Potter discussion, and folks in [email protected] would likely not appreciate JKR discussion. Keeping [email protected] open allows for the discussion of both aspects in the same thread.