morgan423

I’m going to be exceedingly gracious and assume that the one person who downvoted your comment (as of the time I’m typing this) accidentally hit the wrong button and didn’t realize it.

The one child policy is going to end up biting them in the demographics not too far down the road.

Slavery was about 99% of what drove the entire thing, so it makes sense to me.

Indeed. As evidenced by the fact that doing things that are money-smart (in general, stuff that amounts to avoiding debt) is actually harmful to a credit score. The powers that be want you to consume on borrowed funds.

Pretty sure there have been a few spam bot/latent bot purges over the last month on multiple instances. I remember people discussing them a little while back. And it was a ton of bots.

So part of what you’re seeing is normalization, as the user numbers were always artificially inflated with bots.

Our definition of spam may be different. I think of it on a personal level as “this guy / bot just cross-posted the same thing to five different communities within two minutes.” Others wouldn’t define that as spam.

Connect for Lemmy has a block instances feature. No idea how well it works though

Instantly, completely, and perfectly. I know because I accidentally blocked my home instance (.world), and I had NOTHING on my local page. Took a few moments to figure out how to unblock it lol

I’ve found it much more effective to ban the spam posters / bot posters in general, instead of communities. That catches the worst of it and mostly eliminates all of the cross posting.

NSFW content has an enable/disable toggle check box in the settings. Sounds like you’ve got it turned off.

This was posted on Mastodon.world. The same gentleman runs Lemmy.world.

Feel your pain. I’m constantly thinking, what the hell do I have to do to get r/orioles to follow me over to Lemmy to grow the numbers? They are one of the only things left at Reddit that I regularly look at. But 99% of the mod and user base there just doesn’t care about the the issue.

Conversely, that means that at least sports spaces are among the least bot-spammed places on Reddit. So there’s that.

Please definitely don’t be discouraged in the slightest, TPM.

Single-game forums were almost always the smallest gaming subreddits on Reddit, often times being several orders of magnitude smaller than the “gaming in general” communities.

But that special feeling of having other people passionate about that specific game you love can’t be beat. Hang in there, and you’ll definitely grow and get that engagement in time.

Leaving this site as well, as it keeps a mention as to whether an instance is currently allowing open sign ups or not.

Note: Even if an instance isn’t currently allowing open sign ups, they may have another sign up method going on in the background (like application/approval sign ups). If you’re interested in the instance, you should still check, just don’t expect quick/instant approval.

Hmmm… the admins said today on this post chain (at about 10a UTC) that they were going to making a blog post regarding this issue.

So hopefully more clarification will be coming. At this point they’ve heard from enough users to know that there’s pointed disagreement with federating with Threads for more than a nanosecond after they become visible.

Agreed. Ruud has done a lot of great things for .world in its short time, but I don’t agree with his decision on this… I do hope he changes his mind.

There’s no need to “give Meta a chance,” they’ve already demonstrated who they are time and again. And I don’t want to end up having to leave .world in the future because the traditional Fediverse split in two, and .world is on the wrong side of it.

I don’t think it’s a question yet. I’ve seen several people say today that Threads doesn’t have federation enabled. It’s possible that they’ll want to stay in their own walled-off ecosystem.

But I do think it would be prudent to have a plan of attack ready to go to cut them off immediately if they ever change their minds about that. Every respectable instance in the Fediverse should.

I don’t know what their intentions are in full, but they certainly won’t be good from our perspective. We came here to free ourselves from corporate shackles, not bind ourselves back up in them.