I’m smoking weed about it.
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Very nice. Thank you for the continued work.
Maybe it’s part of your instance image policy?
Edit - Need coffee and weed before getting on Lemmy. I can’t read apparently and missed that you tried this on your own instance as well. My bad.
Throw the URL in tor and it should work fine.
The odds of someone only behaving that way in certain communities is probably slim to none. I’d just make sure you have clear rules in place so that if you ever have to take action against those types of people you aren’t immediately put on blast for power tripping or whatever.
Are you the sole moderator of whatever comm you’re talking about? Maybe you should talk to some of the other people who are active in the community, see if they are interested in helping mod, and decide together what the right course of action is.
Alternatively this is your chance to lay a few ground rules and then point to them when this behavior comes up again. Make it clear that human decency isn’t optional and that you won’t allow others to be trampled on just for a little bit of traffic in the community. This gives whoever may need it a chance to curb that behavior instead of immediately lowering the boom on them, and shows the rest of the community that you aren’t going after people on a personal vendetta.
I’m going with Oscar mostly because I’m constantly finding weed bits all over myself. I also really enjoy the idea of the “grouch” toking away in his little hideaway while everyone thinks he’s angry.
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Yeah that would do it lol. Thanks for that info.
Apologies OP, I don’t keep up with who’s blocking who on Lemmy.
It could be that LBZ hasn’t discovered the community yet. If that’s the case you may have to try a couple times before it actually populates. One of many federation quirks. Here are some other links to try.
There’s !mutual_aid@hexbear.net which I believe allow GoFundMe links.
401·1 month agoReddit is not a “good” company but at least they are doing the right thing here.
21·1 month agoDon’t know, I don’t engage with that nonsense.
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Let’s not pretend there aren’t shitheads on every side of every argument. If people are behaving in ways that aren’t what the home instances want, they should be dealt with by their instance admins and moderation. Doesn’t matter if you eat meat, plants, or paint chips. We don’t have to be like this, it’s a choice.
not sure what we can do about it.
Discourage it instead of fanning the flames. Take a stance against bad faith actors and trolls, the same shit we’ve always done.
I think out of desperation to grow and thrive a lot of things are being let go and ignored. As always, this will only lead to things deteriorating until the place is detestable like Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Instead of embracing the things we can do better than those platforms we’ve carved out a space on many of the major instances for the worst of these people, and that’s a mistake IMO.
The problem is that toxicity leeches out across the fediverse which stifles growth as more and more negativity makes it to front pages around the web. I don’t have the solution either but I do think more accountability is needed for users and moderators across the fediverse.
All of them are working as intended, can’t ask for much more than that. I don’t think it’s healthy to get caught up in subscribers and all that too much. Things are generally trending positively, good enough for me.
There’s been a disappointing uptick in negative interactions on the fediverse lately (IMO) and that’s more disturbing to me than community numbers. Some (again, IMO) questionable decisions are being made in some of the larger places on the fediverse but a lot of it is users taking it as a challenge or a right of passage to get banned from communities or instances so they can meme and rant about it. It’s silly behavior and we can do better than this.
I can’t say for certain but the fediverse is prone to behave unpredictability at times. You’re probably better off thinking about Lemmy as a collection of websites rather than one central hub like reddit or more traditional sites.
Instances go up and down all the time as well. Sometimes when a site goes down for maintenance (and probably other things like sync issues) the subscriber numbers will fluctuate because a bunch of them are on a site that “doesn’t exist” for a short time while it’s being worked on.
Everything you do on Lemmy takes longer than what you’re probably used to on a more traditional website too. Your posts to your local instance should be instantaneous but sometimes it can take minutes, hours, or even days for those actions to fully federate to other places. This is true of posts, replies, votes, and subscriptions.
There is also defederation which can cause the behavior you described. You are on one of the largest instances on Lemmy and some people have soured on it and its users. It’s entirely possible some of your subscribers were on an instance that defedderated with lemmy.world or something.
TLDR: You are likely overthinking the impact of bots and putting too much importance on subscription numbers. Make sure the community you care about can actually reach the people who might be interested and hope for the best.
Only slightly related but maybe you’d be interested -
I put together a help post for new Lemmy users on my instance describing how to find and join new places on Lemmy. Maybe these resources will help you understand more about how Lemmy works and how you can get your community off the ground.
Bots are not nearly as widespread on Lemmy as they are on reddit. You’re letting your frustration with a slow growing community turn into “old man yells at cloud.”
The main use of bots is for federating. They join communities but don’t interact with posts at all. Even that requires an instance admin to set up so it’s not like there are thousands of them or something. Bedsides that the rest of them are mostly news and information shares.
Lemmy is much smaller than reddit and has more barriers to entry and community growth. Expect it to take months to get a community off the ground.
It seems like you don’t actually understand how to get your community posts to more people.
Lemmy doesn’t spread content to all other instances by default. The whole process is pretty clunky and takes far more effort than it should to promote new places.
Have you announced the community on !newcommunities@lemmy.world or anything? Discovery on Lemmy leaves a lot to be desired in its current form.
3·2 months ago@Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com carrying !loweffortmemes@walledgarden.xyz to the top this week.
Thank you!
Lemmy seems to mangle a lot of links that aren’t basic urls. SimpleX chat links break for some reason here too.
Thank you for the suggestions. At this point it seems the best option may be to just shutter this instance and start over with a fresh database instead of dealing with a bunch of nagging problems from previous experiments. I’ve done plenty of testing in production because for most of that time it was only me being affected by the consequences lol.