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Die4Ever

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  • Is communities discovery really that bad, do we just miss enough people, or should people revisit their expectations and go for more general communities?

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  • Is communities discovery really that bad, do we just miss enough people, or should people revisit their expectations and go for more general communities?

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  • Not being able to create your own custom feeds is also a massive problem because you can’t split your feed into types like memes/news/discussions/meta etc.

    Summit can do this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idunnololz.summit&hl=en_US

    They call it a "multi-community"

    Low traffic communities get buried in your feed when you subscribe to them

    I use Subscribed+Scaled sort to fix this issue, it's my default sort method

  • Is communities discovery really that bad, do we just miss enough people, or should people revisit their expectations and go for more general communities?

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  • Post about your favorite TV show in a tv/movies community, don’t make a new one just for your show.

    I agree, but I also don't want to spam those communities lol.

    Like !deus_ex_randomizer@lemmy.mods4ever.com or !stauf_mansion@lemmy.mods4ever.com would be too much spam for one of the gaming communities, or patient gamers.

    And it'd be even more spammy for the communities that are in-between in specificity (like !adventuregames@lemm.ee or !deus_ex@lemmy.ml)

    I just do rare cross-posts for the most notable posts

  • Is communities discovery really that bad, do we just miss enough people, or should people revisit their expectations and go for more general communities?

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  • Is communities discovery really that bad, do we just miss enough people, or should people revisit their expectations and go for more general communities?

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  • or provide a better explanation what it exactly is doing?

    I know most people won't go outside of the site to figure this stuff out, but for reference: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

    It's basically the Hot ranking but divided by the number of active users in the community, Subscribed+Scaled is my favorite feed

  • Is communities discovery really that bad, do we just miss enough people, or should people revisit their expectations and go for more general communities?

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  • have you tried Scaled sort? I use Scaled for my subscribed feed and it does a great job showing new posts in niche communities

  • Is communities discovery really that bad, do we just miss enough people, or should people revisit their expectations and go for more general communities?

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  • Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?

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  • Is making user interaction between instances easier even possible in current state of fediverse and the protocol?

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  • Copying URL into search bar? That is really repelling.

    I wonder if Lemmy should have the search bar always visible, like Mastodon does

    or at least if your window is wide enough to fit it, otherwise it can collapse to the icon, I've got plenty of room up here

  • Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?

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  • Basically, I blame Lemmy.

    Peertube is older than Lemmy though.

    What you suggest isn't actually a bad idea, but if that was the goal then they shouldn't even pretend to support user accounts only channel accounts, channel accounts wouldn't need to be able to like/comment/subscribe either. They wouldn't have to bother with their UI rendering likes/dislikes/comments, they wouldn't need buttons to subscribe, and they wouldn't need a mobile app either. It's a good idea, just be a video backend and only support the embedded video player (as it appears on Mastodon), but it doesn't seem like that was their goal.

    They support everything, they just don't encourage it? A logged in user doesn't use much more server resources than an anonymous user. It's still fetching all the video stats and comments, and of course the video itself which is the biggest thing. Kinda seems like it's just for moderation concerns.

  • Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?

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  • yes Youtube has maybe a billion user accounts with 0 videos, it's the main way to use the platform

  • Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?

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  • they seem to only give accounts to creators

    Yea this is a bit silly. It seems like they manually approve user accounts because they need to be careful with the uploads using up their storage. But a way better solution would be to approve users more liberally, and user accounts would be created without a channel so they cannot upload anything, and creating channels needs to be approved. That way people can freely make user accounts for browsing/following, and the admins can still restrict spam channels from being created and uploading videos.

  • Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?

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  • yea Youtube lets you use the same name, but the extra organization that Peertube gives seems pretty cool too

  • Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?

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  • YouTube is a bit different because you can use your username as your channel name, and then you can have multiple "brands" that aren't linked to your username. People can't find those from your main account.

  • The /r/piracy link to lemmy /c/piracy hit the reddit frontpage with 7K+ updoots!

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  • All of the biggest instances could take turns running ads for themselves lol

  • The /r/piracy link to lemmy /c/piracy hit the reddit frontpage with 7K+ updoots!

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  • I don't think defed has been that bad, and I think over time we'll get more features to avoid having to defed (aside from illegal content or spam).

    Like users being able to block users and/or communities by instance, or admins being able to set default block lists for new users, or users being able to easily share block lists.

  • Offline Data Storage

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  • 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.

  • Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?

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  • what's the best peertube instance to upload gaming videos to? I might upload some and see how it goes

    edit: I think I'm gonna go with spectra, but omg this is annoying:

    Channel identifier cannot be the same as your account name. You can click on the first step to update your account name.

    I get it, they're separate actors, but still annoying. Can people find my channel by either name? Edit2: yes they can, all the user's channels are listed on the user profile, which maybe makes it worth the signup annoyance

  • Does it make sense to cross post to most than one community to read the most people and contribute to Lemmy being active or is that spam?

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