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joined 1 year ago
 

I edited all my comments to this quote from Aaron Swartz:

"We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that’s out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerrilla Open Access."

It seemed appropriate. I'm sad to see the way that reddit has gone, but not surprised. I believe that if Aaron were still around, he'd be leading the charge against whats happening at reddit.

[–] admin@wallstreets.bet 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No worries, I'm just trying to learn and looking for tools that can help me support the broader community as a fellow God.

For example, I'm still not sure I've got federation set up correctly because of some funniness around discovery. I think it might actually be the way lemmy.ml is set up.

Any tools that could help admin are just golden so keep cracking.

[–] admin@wallstreets.bet 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

No luck using it for me.

[–] admin@wallstreets.bet -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Dam you live like this?"

[–] admin@wallstreets.bet 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You got me. I think that the approach of having to subscribe to a community on every federated instance means that discovery is kind-of broken. I get that it is 'working as intended' but I think that may have had unintended consequences.

The result has been monolithic communities which are all the 'same', and it ends up splitting interests across communities, which will inevitably slow growth, and prevent lemmy from being a true reddit killer (this is basic math of networks and how they function).

I know the developers are doing their best, but I think at a high level lemmy needs to be reconsidered. Instances should be focusing on some niche thing, like poland ball humor, or skiing, or woodworking, each with niche communities within them. For example "wintersports" might have communtieis for skiing, cross country skiing, maybe one for showing off your new skiis, etc... That way your 'home' is around your central interest. Then allow 'all federation' across all instances (if you want to).

This wouldn't be so much a software change as a cultural change to how we approach making lemmy's (aside from the discovery issue).

 

Is there any way to automate community discovery across lemmy instances?

I'm just getting my lemmy community going and I'm seeing super weird behavior when I'm trying to add communities or connect via federation.

 

So I got this instance up yesterday and I didn't (still don't) really understand federation.

Does any one have a tutorial or an explainer I could tuck into that can help me figure out how to effectively federate/ connect to other lemmy instances?

For example, I connected to !memes!memes@lemmy.ml. It appears to now be 'federated', in that when I look at 'all communities' on !wsb_memes@wallstreets.bet , then I see posts. Whats weird though, is that they are all 18 hours behind, and have no activity.

I really want to support the growth of the lemmy verse. I think the best way to do this is with unique, niche focused federated instances for 'groups' of specific interests. wallstreets.bet is how I thought I could support that. But I'm struggling with the federation aspect and I'm not sure its working correctly.