gabe [he/him] @ gabe @literature.cafe

Admin for literature.cafe. Lover of cats, books and yarn.

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Dude it’s 9am where I am, I just woke up and posted a comment without fully proofreading it. Maybe consider not being an aggressive asshole and gently correct me instead? My intention was to say that they likely do read it and reach the conclusion they want and the irony of that goes over their head. I simply stated I assumed you understood what I actually meant

You get what I mean at least I think though 🤷‍♀️

Cognitive dissonance is one of hell of a drug for some people, don’t underestimate it

I’ve read flamer and it’s kind of telling how people want it banned. It makes me wonder if people who are deeply opposed to it feel called out by it’s core messaging

How many names has stonetoss gone by at this point like what the hell

I miss the old firefox logo but new one is still really good in my opinion

Reddit blocks large lemmy instance links. Going as far as to remove them at times, with some users even getting account sanctions over it. lemmynsfw has specifically faced people getting account warnings as nsfw subs have advertised that site

I have specific art medium focuses and book series communities within it that I’m building as well

I absolutely love this. Federate all the things!

Thanks for the shout out! I agree, more niche hobby focused instances are better.

Aw thank you for the shout out! I run lemmyloves.art as well as literature.cafe I contemplated making an art focused instance on pixelfed over lemmy but the software just generally isn't there yet imo. Maybe someday I might give it a shot provided if I get donations to help sustain my current instances on lemmy. I like pixelfed and it's rapid development though, it's extremely promising.

Oh no it's all good! :) I also have an art focused community that's newer, its lemmyloves.art The growth is steady in each community, but it's definitely there.

The only time I go to reddit is to look at r/redditalternatives and witness whatever drama is going on within the newest centralized attempt at reddit that week

Dunno if you're being serious or sarcastic but I have in this thread already, it's literature.cafe for books and writing and lemmyloves.art for more art focused stuff. Both communities have a "411" community that lists communities to federate into other instances. Honestly I am hopeful such a list will become redundant as community navigation improves. We thankfully have a leg on lemmy compared to mastodon as you only need to federate in communities, not users.

I mean the organic growth of my book and writing focused instance has been pretty solid. It's not giant, but the people are there. When community discovery is better in lemmy it'll improve as well.

Speaking as someone actively building niche focused communities (literature.cafe for books and writing & lemmyloves.art for art) this kind of defeatist attitude saddens me. Community's don't explode over night. I fully get that community discovery is hard as hell right now though with lemmy, and attempts are being made to fix it. But with the communities that do exist, it's a matter of participating and starting conversations if you don't see one you want to participate in. On a new and emerging platform like this, you really can't be a lurker. Posting, commenting, engagement, and likes is the only currency here.

The thing with lemmy is that it does feel like screaming into the void sometimes, but you also have the benefit of a smaller community to have more focused discussions. Quality over quantity is the focus here rather than the mess that reddit had. Reddit has tons of content but a large portion of that is just noise and spam, it is much more preferable to have a high quality post once a day with an engaging and thoughtful discussion than a community filled with low quality spam most of the time and only one high quality post a day that's nearly impossible to find.

What interests do you have that aren't found here? Some tiny niche interest communities are being built, you sometimes just gotta find em

On lemmy it's only if the blocks are mutual, but it varies. It's bizarrely complicated in the way that lemmy handles it.

Imagine the fediverse like a bunch of buildings on a street with each instance having its own giant delivery crew that is constantly working. Every time a post is made, the delivery crew is sent to other connected instances to inform them of that post. Defederation is like placing a bouncer in front of your building that automatically checks the ID of each delivery crew thats trying to enter the home instances building. If an instance it has defederated from tries to send over any of its delivery crew, they are immediately stopped by the bouncer and thrown into the trash.

Obviously it's more complicated than that with tons of actions and things that go on across the fediverse, but the basic principle is there. It's like placing a "do not enter" sign.

Ever since they fired the team that curates trends, it has been an utter wreck