Otter @ otter @lemmy.ca

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4mo ago

Welcome New Users!

There's actually no harm in commenting on communities from another instance!

Often there will be one large community for each topic, on some random instance, rather than individual communities on every instance. The diagrams on this doc might help to see how it works: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview

It is possible that a community is intended for a certain group of people, and ideally the community name will indicate that. If not, you can open up the community and check the sidebar. For example, !medicine@lemmy.ca is named 'Medicine Canada', and it is intended for Canadian medical professionals / Canadian medical news, while !medicine@mander.xyz is named 'Medicine', and it is the general community for the topic.

We didn't have to make 'Medicine Canada' on lemmy.ca, and in fact, there are many non-Canadian communities on lemmy.ca. It all comes down to what the community mods want the community to be about. The instance is just where they chose to set up shop.

In your case, the sidebar at !aliexpress@programming.dev says:

An unofficial English-speaking channel for discussing Aliexpress and Alibaba, interesting products you find, asking for product recommendations, and any scams by the sellers.

When in doubt, just check the community sidebar :)

4mo ago

Please find the new community for DataIsBeautiful over at !dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz

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Odd, this one got unpinned as well. Just fixed it

Maybe I should make a list of posts to check on every once in a while, until the issue gets fixed

4mo ago

Welcome New Users!

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Would you be able to share an example? (Short description or screenshot is fine)

We might be able to clarify or add it to the guides in the future

4mo ago

Welcome New Users!

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Welcome :)

If anyone is curious, the post sorting calculations are also public (the code is open source). As a summary:

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html

Active uses the post votes, and latest comment time (limited to two days).
Hot uses the post votes, and the post published time.
Scaled is similar to Hot, but gives a boost to smaller / less active communities.

No more hidden algorithms was a big one for me. I personally use 'Scaled', and sometimes flip to the other ones to take a peek

5mo ago

Measles outbreak reported in northern Alberta community of John D'Or Prairie [CBC]

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It looks the URL got dropped from your post, likely this one: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/measles-outbreak-reported-in-northern-alberta-community-of-john-d-or-prairie-1.7480122

I've seen this a few times recently, and I think the 'create post' UI could be improved for new users, specifically around the image upload and thumbnail options. You can have either a link or an image, but not both, and the thumbnail is applied separately

What I like to do is

paste in the link
add the title (if it didn't autofill)
copy a link to an image from the news article and paste it in the thumbnail field

Lemmy lets you edit any part of a post after posting, so I sometimes fix things if it doesn't look right.

(also welcome to Lemmy.ca 😊)

5mo ago

Notifications?

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Some apps (ex. Boost in my case) use polled notifications, where the app checks every hour and makes a notification if there's anything new. Generally Lemmy replies aren't urgent so this hasn't been a problem

5mo ago