JohnnyEnzyme

Reddit doesn’t have the post scheduler that PieFed has, which integrates with Lemmy. As a community-runner that one’s super-useful to me. Also on the PieFed side, we can add both hashtags and flair to posts, whereas on Reddit there’s only post flair.

IIRC both Lemmy and PieFed have the ability to sort posts in more useful ways, for example there’s 8 different ways to sort “top” posts, as well as sorting by “scaled” and other criteria. TBF, Reddit’s 3rd-party “RES” extension is just plain awesome, and adds lots of things basic Reddit doesn’t have.

Anyway, each app and/or software means of looking at the Fediverse will offer a slightly different mix of features and characteristics. I’m not really the most knowledgeable on that stuff, so again, I urge you to take these questions to an AskLemmy thread, or similar. Could just search on them too, or ask an LLM.

Yes, the different servers are called “instances,” and each are founded by different admins for different reasons. All the communities from all eligible instances get mixed in to your ALL stream / feed, but of course there is also your personal feed made up solely of communities you’re subscribed to.

I only know that Voyager is a tool, but I’ve no experience with it. I access the Fediverse almost exclusively through web browser.

I’m only a community founder and mod, not an admin. I don’t know much from that POV, but you could always make a new thread in “AskLemmy” or something.

…its usability is fairly rudimentary.

I wouldn’t really say rudimentary; but it’s more complicated than Reddit and takes more time to understand and get the most out of. This is the trade-off for users being nothing more than dollar signs over at Reddit.

Thanks for explaining, and sorry about my grouchy reply, earlier. I was a bit toasted at that moment. :S

IME, getting a community off the ground and running is a huge task, especially the more niche it is. With most places you’ll need to be both the show-runner and content creator for years, plus deal with whatever headaches that come up along the way.

2.5yrs in, with ~1,200 users lost when Lemm.ee shut down, I’m back up to 1K subscribers at my place. I’ve created around 600posts so far, much of them in the form of little articles and sample sequences from graphic novels. So when will the community ‘take off,’ such that I can semi-retire from posting? Probably not anytime soon.

Okay, thanks, and… no thanks!

I don’t need that shizzle upon my Smartphone, ever…

Huh, I only know “alexexandrite” as a gemstone. Is there more to that story?

BT dubs, to link communities you prepend with an !. Use the @ sign to link a user.

Sorry, and thank you. Is that 2nd link okay, now?

My take (hot or not) is that we don’t so much need more communities as we do regular contributors. That’s particularly true in this case, IMO.

!photography@piefed.social
https://piefed.social/c/photography

!photography@lemmy.world
https://lemmy.world/c/photography

I feel like your contributions would be very welcome at those places.

The only reason the human race survived is empathy.

That’s a fine, simple-minded and idealistic thought, and the downvotes upon fact & reality above are hilarious to me. But nah-- empathy is a MAJOR component upon tribalism, which in various ways was the original “Democracy.”

Study it more, and you’ll see it over and over again, my lad. With respect.

We’re seeing tribalism

Not exactly “tribalism,” but “individualism,” at least in the States.

Classic tribalism has many fine features, and is in fact how we got here as a species, across millions of years. FUN FACT: did you know that the human species (“Homo” and relatives) goes back about 2.4million years, and through ~99.9% of that time, we successfully existed in a tribal / clan state?

IMO individualism also had great features, but when you mix in the concept of money… oh dear.

Can the board grow dynamically once a milestone is met? That could solve the early game issue?

Something definitely worth looking at, although it might add more complexity.

Since it’s in the testing stage, maybe add the option to start with a smaller board, even if it can become eventually cramped. I’m still trying to memorise what everything does, and a smaller board would help for testing purposes.

I haven’t tested this as actively as I’d hoped so far, but will continue to take stabs at it, here and there. My ambition is to give you better feedback and advice, as someone who likes testing games…

It seems odd that any top-level, site-wide mod would take personal offence at one particular post from one particular user out of however many million on Reddit.

If I understand correctly, a lot of their top-level modding is now done by automation. They seem pretty sensitive about conspicuous left-wing posters, for example those who would critique the current USA admin. And Reddit almost certainly has an internal social media profile / score for all users, similar to what can be extracted from these tools:

https://reddit-user-analyser.netlify.app/
https://snoosnoop.com/

That’s when it tastes like plastic IME. Big yikes from me, but different strokes for different folks.

Btw, I happen to love crispy popcorn, and figured out that you can rescue stale popcorn & other snacks by tossing them in the air-fryer a little bit.

That’s generally a very safe assumption!

Btw, someone mentioned the name being a bit old-timey, and it is. But I think it’s one of the ones that sounds rather stylish & hip, FWIW. Unlike say Melvin, or Herbert, or Horace, or Elmer, or Mortimer, par exemple.

I hate to recommend the evil empire, but there’s a very good sub on this topic called r/AmerExit. Sometimes a community is too niche to exist on the Fediverse, and one must hold one’s nose and visit Reddit for certain content.

I don’t re-watch movies very often, and more than three times is rare as hens’ teeth. Sometimes it’s because it’s an absolute classic, or sometimes it’s because I’m weirdly fascinated by it. Let’s see if I can remember those rare exceptions.

• Starship Troopers (good movie, and something about it charmed my socks off)
• Les Triplettes de Belleville (absolutely must-see, smashing masterpiece, no need to know French) (free to watch here!)
• Big Lebowski (words cannot describe)
• The Life of Brian (Monty Python’s finest movie IMO, and a fascinating commentary on religion)
• Fire and Ice (good movie, and I found the rotoscoping utterly entrancing) (free to watch here and here!)

I don’t really care about Star Wars

That seems like a perfectly valid reaction to most of the movies beyond the first 2-3. I know there are some exceptions, including some of the animated series, but most of it is just repetitive, useless dreck IMO.

I’ll hottake that hottake: cinema popcorn is amazing (around here at least), and I think a lot of that comes from key ingredients they use. One is “Flavacol” seasoning, and the other is butter-flavored coconut oil. Makes a world of difference, assuming you like a buttery taste.

George Dubya, is that you?

He didn’t patent that expression, far as I know.

1. Kill all the apes (or just wait 15 more minutes)

We’re doing a great job of that ourselves, so mission accomplished?

2. Enjoy Lemmy

I’ve been on Reddit for 10yrs, and the Fediverse for the past 2.5yrs, and don’t see that changing anytime soon. I’m also skeptical as to the FV ever matching Reddit in terms of variety and bulk of content. The situation just is what it is.