thegiddystitcher @ thegiddystitcher @lemm.ee

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Not sure you meant this to be a direct reply to my comment but fwiw I completely agree with you.

Some people are ok watching with ads because it supports creators. Some people aren't, but choose to donate to individual creators instead. And others are either unable or unwilling to do either but the moral support of their views and comments is lovely regardless.

Weirdly, the viewcount is completely different in the three highlighted areas, I don’t really know what that means, but perhaps someone else can explain it?

I know it's not really important but just in case anyone's curious. The bottom right is showing the video's all-time views (43). The top left is showing the video's views over the last 48 hours (34). And the main graph in the middle of the screen is usually on a delay, so is probably not counting today's views yet hence the (19).

Oh yeah I don't care. My videos go up on PeerTube as well, don't make any money there, just enjoy sharing my crafts with people really! I won't deny the bit of extra cash is nice and it definitely helps afford stuff for new videos, which I struggled with sometimes before getting monetised. But that doesn't take much, anything else is just a bonus.

You'd probably get a different answer from someone who's into it like a proper business and trying to grow grow grow.

So excited for this to roll out, I'm sure it'll need further tweaks as we go but it's encouraging to hear positive reports from the start!

There is definitely the concept of monetised (ie ad-viewing) vs unmonetised views, here's a random day example from mine:

Unfortunately I can't see a way to filter to just unmonetised views, to take a look at the traffic sources. I did have a quick look through the traffic sources in general though and can't see any of the popular frontends listed in external, other YT, or anywhere else. So if those views are counted (which it seems like they are from the experiment in top comment) I expect they probably end up in one of the "unknown" buckets. Whether that means it really is unknown or just that YT don't want to be drawing attention to these services by name, who knows.

It could actually be an instance thing, because depending on what's actually federated with you you'll get different results.

One thing I like to do for my main tags is do an occasional trawl through the results on that site I linked, and compare it to search results from my server. Anyone not showing up is either on an instance that mine has blocked (in which case booo) or they're just not federated yet because nobody on my server follows them. In which case I follow them!

This can be a big advantage of themed instances because if you're on, say, warhammer.social then chances are the people on there with you are already following lots of people posting about it elsewhere and so you'll get lots of search results. But if you're on, idk, an instance about birdwatching then it's less likely to already have a lot of Warhammer content federated and waiting.

One of my accounts is on a tiny creative server so I'm good for knitting content but struggle a bit with the weekly NFL live-tooting for obvious reasons!

And yeah I do agree following hashtags isn't the be all end all (especially with the lack of language filter), but it's a good way to start at least finding those people you want to specifically follow 🙂

Oh are you kidding there's SO MUCH Warhammer on Mastodon. Check out the local feed of warhammer.social. There's also wargamers.social but obviously a bit broader in focus.

Even if you just follow #Warhammer there's a decent amount but then you can add in other tags like #Warhammer40k, #GamesWorkshop, #AgeOfSigmar, #Necromunda, #BloodBowl, #WarHamFam, #WarhammerCommunity, #Wargaming, #MiniaturePainting and damn we have got ourselves a feed going!

I'm sure I read a post on one of the communities here recently that was showing off their entry to a Mastodon-based painting competition as well.

As far as things like gaming go obviously that's a pretty wide topic and it's gonna depend what you're looking for. #VideoGames or #Gaming for example gets you a lot of news headlines. Specific game tags e.g #Starfield will get you a mixture of news, streamers, screenshots, memes and of course people aggressively complaining. Or maybe you're interested in seeing what sorts of games small indie creators are making in which case something like #DevLog might be of interest.

I know your original post is asking for "notable content creators" which it seems like you're using to mean "big accounts". But really if it's interesting content on a topic you enjoy, the size of the account posting it doesn't matter.

And naturally since you said you're open to other "quality content" I do also recommend #Knitting because we're surprisingly active and also cool af.

What topics are you looking for? These threads never specify what topics you're looking for! 😄

Oh wow, that is extremely important info missing from the post. So it's a list of "recommended alternatives" for subreddits, except deliberately populated with bots instead of recommending the places where real people are?

I'm sure there's a use-case for this that I just can't see, but it should probably be communicated better because your description (comparing this to sub.rehab etc) definitely suggests these are real communities and that's pretty misleading.

Confusion. Is there some way to suggest communities without logging in with a Reddit account? Lots of people deleted their Reddit accounts...

Also I checked out the recommended alternative for my NFL team and it seems to be some kind of weird bot community populated entirely by bots...this might need some moderation.

Had no idea this existed, thank you

Too soon!

Seems like the specific issue is this:

• If the community is on your local instance, it doesn't show the instance in the dropdown. If it's a remote instance, it does.
• However instead of using the actual unique URL of the community, it uses the display name. So in this case lemmy.ml/c/ireland and lemmy.ml/c/ireland_on_lemmy both have their display name set to just "Ireland".

I think differentiating between local and remote communities is actually pretty useful but obviously the second thing is a problem when you've got competing communities on one server. Which I guess is a thing that people are doing.

Maybe instead of:

• Ireland
• Ireland

it should be showing

• Ireland (/c/ireland)
• Ireland (/c/ireland_on_lemmy)

which not only fixes this problem but also means you can see how to get to a community to go check it out before posting there (this comes up sometimes in the process of crossposting) and it'll stop, say, a mod giving their community an unrelated name to confuse people into posting something inappropriate or whatever.

There should probably also be a character limit on the display name because that UK one is obnoxiously taking up all of the horizontal space and leaving no room for its actual identifier.

The trick is to figure out what you want your holidays to look like, and then just do that.

We've got a weird tradition of going to the beach every Christmas Eve, wandering along the freezing cold pier, getting cheesy chips, then heading home where my husband pours himself a glass of something luxurious and watches Zulu while I generally get in a spot of knitting or gaming or something.

This year, his mam is trying to organise a big family party on Christmas Eve. Whole family will be there...except us. We've got our tradition and we like it. No stress.

Justice for Leeds!

(It's a city not a town)

Living in an area that has "James Cook is from round here" as basically its only defining characteristic just got a lot cooler.

Nice! Great minds and all that. Definitely going to be keeping an eye on how it develops :)

More for other mods to be aware that it's not going to work quite as smoothly as they might hope. But yeah adding that to the bot replies makes a lot of sense, good thinking!

I'm wondering, is it all or nothing in terms of which posts get tagged? For example I mod !knitting@lemmy.world and most of our posts are someone showing off a project, which is easy to comment on from Mastodon (I've been boosting and replying to stuff manually to draw attention there as you described in your OP). But then we also have things like Work-In-Progress Wednesday, where multiple people are posting images of their WIPs to one thread. This doesn't work so well with Mastodon because images don't federate (in either direction) with the exception of the first image attached to the main post, so there's no point sharing it there.

Not to give you more work but maybe it's an idea to have an opt-out keyword that can be included in a post, and the bot will know to ignore that one?

Again, really is great work, you're always contributing useful stuff to the Fediverse and I for one really appreciate it so please take these rambling thoughts in the constructive manner they're intended, they are definitely not complaints 😄

The best thing about PeerTube is that tags on a video are automatically converted into Mastodon-appropriate tags (spaces removed, basically) that show up in search there, it's a really cool feature that definitely helps a lot with discoverability. So this definitely has potential.

Unfortunately on the Mastodon side, you're still seeing a link to the Lemmy post rather than being able to read it in your feed, which confuses a lot of people in my experience as they don't realise they can reply in Mastodon since it looks like a whole separate thing.

So yeah, great work and I think it probably will help some communities, but nobody get your hopes up too much as the way things federate in that direction is just inherently bad at the moment.

p.s. followed the bot on sunny.garden and mastodon.gamedev.place to get things moving 👍

It is definitely a big downside for a lot of people, yes. And looks like you understood just fine, if you look in the sidebar of that politics community as viewed from futurology.today, the subscriber count reads 0 (because it also only shows the sub count from your instance). That's why new posts aren't being pulled in.

I've seen various discussions among server admins of how to handle it, I think some use a bot to basically sub to everything as a workaround to populate the All feed without real users being subscribed. If your server has a meta community maybe you can ask around there whether they're planning on anything like that?