Is there an instance specific to outdoor/nature communities?

Edit: Sorry I didn't specify it enough. I thought more about backpacking, camping, outdoor gear, ultralight, and so on. I really miss something like r/ultralight or r/CampingAndHiking on the fediverse.

Hear me out: Had these ideas to ensure lemmy doesn't derail into a short video/meme spiral like every other social platform

• Additional (more specific) up/downvote buttons.

Like "original vs generic", "low effort vs detailed"

Not only can we ensure the engagement doesn't derail into an X-like anarchy or Instagram meme fest, but we can also then sort comments by parameters (ie. you've seen 20 pun comments about the headline and broad topic at hand but want to see actual thoughts about a linked article)

Another idea:

• Instances are commonly offering donation buttons since they need to fund the servers. What if we tied cosmetic "superlike" awards to donations.

Thoughts? Very interested in your inputs/adaptations to my ideas or other cool concepts you have to ensure lemmy staying solid while growing

cross-posted from: https://50501.chat/post/146959

We are looking for admin/mod especifically from Lemmy community itself. We are in serious need of moderators or admin with Lemmy knowledge. Please let us know if you would like to be a part of the movement and this Lemmy instance. If you would like to be a part please understand there would be significant time commitment needed as we are a growing community here at Lemmy.

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About the movement

Thank you!

I mod the !iiiiiiitttttttttttt@lemmy.world community, I've managed to grow the number of subscribers from 360 to 800.

I'm thinking of moving it to programming.dev. Is this a good idea? I made a post asking this and I'm looking for feedback there.

There's !foxes@lemmy.world and !foxnews@lemmy.sdf.org. The lemmy.world version has a more recently active mod, @mjokfox@pawb.social / @mjokfox@lemmy.world, while the lemmy.sdf.org one @Greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org hasn't been seen in 2 years. There appears to be a lot more recent activity on !foxes@lemmy.world especially thanks to @ickplant@lemmy.world and overall a bit more activity there. However, lemmy.world is the biggest instance and consolidating towards smaller but still active instances tends to be a better move for keeping the Fediverse decentralized and diverse instead of centralized all on one huge instance.

Either way, it would probably help to consolidate so we can have one active fox community instead of people trying to independently contribute to two communities that seem to have no difference in content. Was wondering what people think about which community to consolidate to, if at all, or if there is some difference I haven't yet detected and they should just coexist.

Also, I followed this guide in the sidebar and am wondering why it says to page relevant users in a top-level comment. Do user mentions just not work in a post so it has to be a comment?

EDIT: You know what, I can test that myself since I have alts. @Elevator7009@lemmy.zip, @Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social, hi! An hour after the self-ping, both in post and in comment, neither account received a notification

I mod/curate !tycoon@lemmy.world and we have a solid icon:

I tried to replicate the style for !crpg@lemmy.world:

But IMO it didn't work out that well, the styling of the 3 elements (helm, sword, spell book) doesn't align with the Lemmy mascot style. The tycoon icon is "hand-drawn" and the cRPG icon is the best I could find on google images.

It's somewhat fine as people see it at a lower resolution, but my OCD doesn't let me let go.

If someone has time/interest to build out a more coherent version where the 3 elements (helm, sword, spell book) align with the Lemmy mouse flat/comic style, I would appreciate it. If not, that's fine too.

Hi all,

Does anyone have the source png images for the lemmy mascot?

I am trying to replicate the community icon in !tycoon@lemmy.world:

but for !crpg@lemmy.world.

I need the main mascot and I can add RPG related stuff on top.

Edit: I just noticed the Tycoon icon was sort of incomplete with part of the money bag's border missing. 😆

https://piefed.social/f/lemmycategories

Here is the outcome from the brief chat I had here.

This is not finished - not in categories, not in organisation, not in communities, but I'm getting exhausted currently. Many communities on here are old, dead, tired. Some are new. Many categories are barren, some are overfilled and need more segmentation. I'm just sharing what I've built as I think this could be very helpful to community advertisement and exploration.

I'd like anyone who runs or knows of communities to let me know here, so I can add them.

Strategy games have a ton of communities, one which has been poked recently into living (!strategy@lemmy.world) and many which are dead.

• !strategygames@sopuli.xyz
• !turnbasedstrategy@lemmy.world
• !realtimestrategy@lemmy.world
• !rts@reddthat.com

Come join us at Cooking with fire!

Pictured in the thumbnail is an 'Over The Top Chilli' in its latter stages, an indirect cook, also here:

We also just slap meat on the grill:

but it's not just about meat. Veggies on the grill rule too:

If you or anyone you love deeply, with all your tastebuds, likes to cook over fire then come and join us. We are a small, but welcoming community for people who love to cook over a live flame.

HT to @CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al for pointing me here!

We currently have quite a few:

• !space@lemmy.world (most active, has had federation delays in the past)
• !space@mander.xyz (active poster, topic-appropriate instance)
• !space@lemmy.ml (active poster, inactive moderator)
• !space@lemm.ee (low activity, unmoderated)
• !space@sopuli.xyz (no active posters or moderators)

Do each of these communities serve a distinct purpose? If not, should we consolidate some of them?

I think the ManderXYZ instance is a nice match for the topic, but I am interested to hear what others think.

It seems https://lemmy-federate.com/ is just wildly popular with people suggesting it and eagerly biting on the suggestion they were given. It seems to just completely subvert the intention of not wasting any storage or space or even energy by federating out communities others did not ask for, or federating in communities nobody on the instance subscribes to, by having bots on instances follow communities. So my understanding is that even if nobody on example.instance cares about exampleCommunity@federate.org, example.instance still wastes resources on federating it in if someone submitted it here.

I do see that

If you want to add your instance to the list, you can login from top right. If you are a user, you can ask your instance admin to add your instance.

on this page. And I have heard of instances opting out from this. So I am curious: if your instance does not participate, what does that mean? No bots subscribing to communities on your instance so they go to everyone else? How does it work? I looked at https://lemy.lol/c/lemmyfederate@lemy.lol and https://lemmy-federate.com/ and https://github.com/ismailkarsli/lemmy-federate and did not see an explanation. On the list of instances on lemmy federate almost everyone seems to be enabled. So I'm curious how it works. Half of me thinks this chips away at the whole point of decentralization, just making sure every instance federates tons of stuff in regardless of actual user interest on the instance. The other half says people can do what they want with their instance, maybe I just do not understand how it works and it does not cause the problems I think it does, even if I'm right maybe most Lemmy users want it, and that it doesn't actually impact my life unless I decide to start being an instance host myself (and in that case then I would really need to know how it works, to figure out how my own instance would behave with lemmy-federate and what restrictions I could place on it).

Please let me know if my understanding is wrong, and how it actually works if so, because I have actually tried the provided resources by the lemmy-federate project to understand before coming here and sharing my understanding and disapproval of how it works if it works the way I think it does.

!pokemonTCGM@crazypeople.online

Just a thought: But I was reading this thread, and although I had thought of it before - it came back to me again. Seems to me that Lemmy, even a particular instance, could work on a sort of "Categorisation System" function whereby communities would be categorised under certain tags so new users (and anyone really) could filter for communities they have interest in. So you would filter by, for instance: Conversational, Memes, News, Politics, Movies, Gaming, Technology etc. Some communities could have multiple tags. It would even be cool if you could exclude certain tags too. So someone might want to see "News" but not "Politics" and filter for communities focused on news, but without any political focus. There could even be subcategories too, so: "Conservational" would have specific types of discussion underneath it: "Debate", "Casual" etc.

You could then order by activity, subscribers, creation date - much like you can now on here.

I realise there have been some attempts at this, like: !lemmydirectory@lemmy.dbzer0.com, but it seems abandoned (and incomplete) and too much work and too awkward to somehow represent in a particular community.

I also think that if such a system was to exist, it would have to somehow be moderated by others as any community mod could poorly or deliberately categorise their community badly. Something on a larger scale to Piefeds system.

Back with newsgroups the general rule was to go from general to specific. You start with a general discussion group and when discussions about video games get annoying you create a games group. If then there are too many Baldur’s Gate discussions you create BG. If they are dominated by Baldur’s Gate 3 you create a Baldur’s Gate 3 group. If everyone is fawning over Withers you create a Withers group which of course will be flooded with discussion about the Withers’ tits mod, which shall get its own group.

Meaning you should create a group when demand is there and not the other way around.

I want to pitch someone to do some posts in !WomensStuff@lazysoci.al

Is it a PTB move (!yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com) to ban a user if their only activity in a community is downvoting posts?

The behaviour baffles me a bit. If they dislike the majority of the posts in a community, why are they subscribed? Or if they are browsing by /all, why have they not blocked the community? Are they under the mistaken impression that Lemmy has an algorithm which uses downvotes as an indicator for "show me less of this"?

Has anyone else encountered a "serial downvoter" in any of their communities?

I've noticed occasionally well-meaning people trying to start communities, or move them to new instances, promptly filling the void in what I'd call "linkdumping". This is when someone creates a bunch of link posts to a variety of articles, sometimes from a single site, but often from a few, all related to the community's topic/focus. At a glance it's similar to spam, but I think it's sort of wrong to label it as such, as on further inspection you can tell that the intent is different.

Unfortunately linkdumping tends to overlook the impact this has on the community's appearance to casual browsers, and how they'll be able to maintain visibility after the initial spate of posts. Instead whenever possible I think people considering creating new communities should be encouraged to pace their posts throughout the day/week/etc.

That's a little much to do manually, so that's where pointing them to Lemmy Schedule, if the community is on a Lemmy site anyway, can help.

At the same time, it may be worth requesting that Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed devs consider adding post scheduling features for admins/moderators in some capacity. This would help those trying to build communities provide them with regular activity without having to do so manually and get burnt out.

But what do you think?

!Witchesvspatriarchy@lemmy.ca is under new management. It's a really positive and interesting group of posters with an interest in witchcraft, supporting women and feminism. It's picking up redfugees and definitely worth checking out.

!fediverse@piefed.social

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40460535