Ategon

yeah its for instances (fediseer doesnt support handling things at the community level so the tags here dont as well (definitely could have worded this message a bit better but community is such a generic term for it to be used to refer to the communities here))

mostly for topic based instances such as mander, p.d, .zip, fanaticus that focus on one thing such as science, programming, gaming, sports

For your edit, this is a collector community for gamedev news so its valid in both. Feel free to crosspost it over if you want

Sure, added it to it

Ill probably clean the sidebar up a bit in the future

Ive been working on a soft fork of lemmy called Pangora to prioritize development on different areas that the main lemmy codebase has been neglecting (such as mod tools). Gives a different option than the main lemmy codebase for supporting development and as redundancy for if anything goes wrong (although not production ready atm as its still getting mostly set up) [email protected]

Created at [email protected]. If you want to be a mod make a post in the community and let me know

(giving this request priority since the other one was made by comcreator)

Were currently just using base lemmy since pangora isn't done so not sure why we would be different from other instances. I can try to look into it

Update: I haven't been able to replicate jshelter showing high. I'm thinking though it might be something about lemmy 0.18.5 vs 0.18.4 since we're on 0.18.4 still. Lemmy.ml is on 0.18.5

Update #2: Was able to replicate it from a computer restart. Could not replicate it on other lemmy 0.18.4 instances

It was put into place mostly due to that since a bunch of those communities were made with no limitations. We can look into changing if it seems to be limiting the creation of some communities but so far has just been limiting mostly topic hyperspecific communities so that the more general communities get used before splitting off into subcommunities

Eh sure, its sort of on the border but if it survives the request zone it can be added. We just require all community ideas get a score of at least 7 from [email protected] in order to get added to show theres enough interest in the idea

lemmy.world is in general. Just instances appear in more than one spot (and some general communities appear for a category if they have the largest community for that category and theres no topic specific instances for it). For example of multiple spots lemmy.db.zer0 is in A.I., anarchist, and a couple others since it has those topics in it

thanks, ill look through it for stuff to add to pangora once im done with ludum dare

The instance finder is built to encourage the use of topic specific instances rather than general use ones so that communities are grouped together better in the same site. The site can then manage all the communities effectively and have the site customized to accomodate them better (and make it feel more like a home for what you like looking at and discussion with others rather than one of many reddit clones)

Categories are mainly so that people are sent to a topic instance that matches their interests. Science goes to mander, programming to p.d, sports to fanaticus, gaming to lemmy.zip, etc.

If youve got some suggestions on how to improve it though let me know, still in progress

Letting you know that if you enter the link into the url box when making a post people can go to it from the post feed. Also the hashtags dont do anything on lemmy (the posts do get federated over to mastodon but mastodon just has a link to the post rather than the post content)