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Leaving Lemmy World (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by IzzyData@lemmy.ml to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world
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I enjoyed my time being here and helping to grow this community. My plan was to keep things such as book of the month and show discussions going indefinitely. It's sad to say goodbye as I would love to continue to try my best at facilitating discussion and help this community become a great resource for science fiction fans everywhere. Unfortunately, I don't have a choice as lemmy.world admins have made the rather baffling decision to ban my account despite no rules being broken. Unless I hear back from Ruud on the matter and the situation is rectified there is no way for me to continue to enjoy discussing science fiction with all of you here. I'm unsure if I will attempt to restart this community on another instance.

Keep on loving science fiction. You guys are great. πŸš€

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[–] Nighed@sffa.community 5 points 1 year ago (10 children)

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)

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs can help with this, and be run by the instance admin rather than the users

[–] gabe 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Interesting! I always assumed the tool would be run by the instance admin, isn't that the case?

[–] gabe 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Interesting, thank you!

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