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I'm so sorry to hear that.
I've too been banned from 2 communities without any justification. (I even made a post about it.)
We need to speak up as members of this wonderful community, we need to build a network that works on trust and reason.
Otherwise, Lemmy (and the Fediverse at large) will be no better than the big tech platforms we fight so hard to get away from.
I mean users are the ones that are flocking to lemmy.world to start new communities instead doing that on other instances.
Yeah, I find that particularly worrying. For all its decentralisation, there's a lot of eggs in the LemmyWorld basket.
I don't generally post on lemmy.world if alternative community exists somewhere else. Cross-posting is a good tool for spreading out but it is not really getting used a lot due to mobile clients not handing them and just showing multiple posts in a row (which annoys people).
It's a bit of a discoverability problem I think, much easier to find content on your own instance. (So new communities are opened on instances with lots of people)
Definitely. Lemmy needs to figure out a way to search more globally (e.g. Mastodon relies on tags for discoverability), but there are external tools like https://lemmyverse.net/communities at the moment. I think just as important is people understanding that you can still grow on smaller instances if you produde interesting content. Just start is a bit slower.
Having to use an external tool gets in the way of a lot of people just through friction unfortunately. Lots of the people here are quite techy I think which helps though.
I need to take another look through there though, I keep running out of content.
https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs can help with this, and be run by the instance admin rather than the users
Please be very very very very careful using this as it can and does cause a shit ton of bandwidth and if you aren't careful it can essentially create the equivalent of a mini ddos attack especially to smaller instances.
Interesting! I always assumed the tool would be run by the instance admin, isn't that the case?
Yes, but federation pulls a lot of data from an instance especially if that bot isn't configured well. Even if it is, it can cause CPU usage to skyrocket as pulling new communities can sometimes bring a lot of database activity.
Interesting, thank you!
I usually look in all or ine new communities community
All is only really useful in the larger instances because they have the communities federated, but yeh, that does help, especially if you are sorting by new or a short top.
https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs can help with discoverability
I was instanced banned as well
This is just like reddit, curating content they approve vs what they disapprove
Who knows what this is, was or soon will be