I’m definitely happy I didn’t open Lemmy until I got home from work today

This is one reason why I never use expanded card views and only used the condensed list views where I have to click a thumbnail to expand lol

If a community is too specific then it won’t gain traction. I think definitely keep it as general as you can, like just a graphic design community (if there isn’t already one)

It’ll be interesting to see how it plays out, if instances with downvoting disabled become popular

Personally I think downvoting is important, it’s like micro-moderation, in a democratic fashion. Sure it doesn’t always work out well, but it can be good for keeping spam and malicious posts at the bottom.

Communities themselves currently do not show up in community search results, this may change in the future; see #2943.

The linked issue was just closed as not planned. Maybe some comments in there could explain how we all want these features to work? The current solution seems a little suboptimal. Maybe hidden communities in search results should have an icon to show they’re hidden.

yea dependencies seem like a real issue here, I don’t think Linux supports side-by-side versions like Windows does, Windows will just install every version of DirectX and libraries like that

apparently Backblaze Desktop doesn’t support Linux.

I haven’t tried it, but apparently if you do a mapped network drive in Windows then BackBlaze will let you back it up as normal.

I use All to read news, my subscribed feed is all more positive stuff so I don’t doomscroll.

I do the same. I’m not going to move instances over this, but it is an annoyance. Hopefully this hiding is temporary, or the issues I filed on Lemmy’s GitHub will improve the situation. Otherwise I guess I’ll subscribe and unsubscribe every day to check it? Lol

The default Lemmy-UI (website), IDK about others

For the eagle eyed people out there, the map is 2 communities short. The basic script I wrote couldn’t find them.

is it possible those communities have been deleted?

yea, when I open the community in Boost it’s empty there too

just to note:

this hides the community from searches unless you put in the exact community ID

https://programming.dev/search?q=news&type=Communities&listingType=All

this also hides the comments inside posts from the community, unless you are subscribed, even if you browse to the post directly

I think this should maybe be considered a bug? anyone agree? I can file the bug report on Github

EDIT: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5390

and https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5391

and https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2943

Right but it’s not a well-known feature of Lemmy, so people won’t know that

the title of this post sounds more serious than it actually is, maybe the title should be modified?

maybe just add “unless you subscribe”?

hey what about Reddit->Lemmy? lol

what’s the source on this? They should probably do each one on a different day?

edit: https://networkcultures.org/geert/2025/01/30/join-global-switch-day-on-february-1st-2025/

https://slrpnk.net/post/17878668

Maybe there should also be one for Bluesky->Mastodon lol

hexbear is defederated, which is basically a firewall block

you can comment on content that was previously copied to our instance yes, but your comment won’t get mirrored over to hexbear, and they can’t see it or reply either

If you’d rather not block the whole community

Other options are changing your sorting method. Like if they’re currently dominating the Hot feed, they’re probably not also dominating the Top 12hr feed, just switch to that.

I think the ideal would be a kind of recommendation system based on tastes and interests. When you go to the Mastodon site to register, it asks you your main interests and based on those it recommends one or another instance.

https://join-lemmy.org/ does this

any idea how much disk space it costs to join this? like if you have an empty instance, does it add more than 1GB per month?

Yep. But it could be seen as an advantage your app has that others don’t, and different apps can try different approaches

I think even just a frontend (web UI or mobile app) could fix this pretty easily

when it loads a page with many posts from the same community, it only shows 1 or 2 and puts the rest in a queue to show on later pages