Can be a post, content, good, bad, or otherwise. Something unique to us.

    • mesa@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Most communities only have one user so this checks out /s

      What kind of communities are you talking about?

      • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Mostly niche interest ones. Especially when there’s multiple communities for that interest. It’s hard to point a finger at one but I think the last one I looked at was dubstep. I check the sidebar, only one mod. I check their user page, they’re only moderating one comm. The odds of them being a terminally online psycho are greatly reduced than if they’re moderating 10+ comms.

        Not that comms with multiple mods are at all bad, or moderators operating a cluster of comms. It’s just not the same instant green flag as when there’s only 1-3. This is kind of why I like the current size fediverse is at. Like, I know people want it to grow but there’s something kind of nice about small communities

  • kingofras@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    A much more selective user base. People are very picky in what they upvote. I feel like in the Spez pool people upvoted or downvoted and would comment a lot easier. Here people vote with 3 options. Up, down or not. Feels much more deliberate. Also means you get a lot less comments (despite there being less users), because people follow the Bambi principle more here (if you don’t have anything nice to say, say nothing at all)

    AND, I think there are some fediverse issues with the various clients and the fact that language is per post setting, hindering discovery.

    • [object Object]@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      the fact that language is per post setting, hindering discovery.

      Could you please elaborate on this a bit? It feels interesting for me, but I don’t quite see how the language setting impedes discovery.

    • mesa@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I always felt on R that if you commented, most of the time, it goes down a black hole. You come into something “late” and no one sees your comment. No up/down votes at all. Which can feel very bad if you spent a lot of time on your response.

      I like that “Bambi principle”. Thats a good way of putting it.

  • eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months ago

    Your mention of unix_surrealism is a good point, it really is quite a unique community.

    Also for me, the 3 day no poop question will forever be deeply tied to lemmy. It only unfolded days after I first joined, and I believe it was the first big piece of lemmy lore.

  • No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    They guy who asked how not to poop for a week.

    I remember the the week I moved here that was in no stupid questions, there was not a lot of comments and post and that became big, references popped in other posts and comments and ultimately was forgotten.

    This is akin of the poop in the shower, dunk in the toilet, guy from IMGUR in 2014 and I still think is legit as everyone is “anonymous” on the internet.

  • Redacted@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I know arch exists and is a type of linux, which is a type of computer for computer people.

    I know there are a bunch of different types of linux but they all require the same socks to work right.

    I know beans help corn grow.

  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    If a person asks you to provide evidence that anything bad is happening in China, you are about to get banned in that Lemmy community before you can collect or post said evidence.

  • 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」(old account, migrated to Piefed)@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago
    • About half are Americans, about half are in non-US Western countries, 5% other
    • everyone here hates the current US admin
    • everyone uses adblockers
    • everyone is anti-surveillance (except like 1 or 2 users you find occasionally defending mass surveillance that get downvoted into oblivion)
    • everyone is either a Marxist Leninist, Left Anarchist, Social Democrat, or Democratic Socialist, except like a handful of liberals and like 2 conservatives
    • almost everyone here supports vigilantism
    • Germans… Germans Memes Everywhere
    • BEANS
    • Frequently, you get extreme CCP shills falsely accusing you of Sinophobia, and simultaneously some are actually some closeted Sinophobes.
    • Tuuktuuk@kbin.melroy.org
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      6 months ago

      Germans

      Mehr als ein Fünftel der Einwohnern in der EU sprechen Deutsch als Muttersprache. Durchwegs zu erwarten also!

      Jedoch sind gar nicht alle deutschsprachige Deutscher! Calling all German-speakers German is like calling all English-speakers American.

    • kingofras@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      You’re going to write beans in caps, not even mentioning corn in passing? This one right here officer!

        • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          Yeah proper term for people that don’t want to discriminate based on gender, race, or sexual preference should be “normal” anyways.

        • Tuuktuuk@kbin.melroy.org
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          6 months ago

          Liberal and Liberalist are two different terms, though. Very few liberalists are liberal.

          If you support basic human rights, liberalism is diametrically opposed to your thinking. You can’t have human rights if Nestlé is allowed to own all the ground water underneath your village.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      6 months ago
      • Frequently, you get extreme CCP shills falsely accusing you of Sinophobia, and simultaneously some are actually some closeted Sinophobes.

      Let me guess. You went to one of the .ml instances and got accused of being “Orientalist” after saying something that someone politically disagreed with?

      Yeah, I still don’t completely understand that crowd. I don’t think that they’re actually shilling, because then they wouldn’t be advocating for North Korea. But there are a lot of people there who are clearly not interested in good-faith discussion. I just decided that it’s not worth dealing with them very early on.

      The [email protected] crowd is determined to keep plunging in, though.

  • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Morons showing up to vandalize comments sections with “Linux!”. We get it, you have absolutely nothing useful to add.

  • mesa@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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    6 months ago
    • [email protected] is VERY unique both in content and in what gets posted.
    • Almost everyone running Linux (or at least it seems like it 😉)
    • Pretty diverse where people are at location-wise. Feels like early internet instead of services trying to bubble you into your place/content.

    Im sure there are others. Looking forward to what everyone else says!

    …Also Beans. Yeah didn’t expect that.

  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The main LGBTQIA+ space is ran by a troll who bans anyone who doesn’t kiss her boot.

    Admins and mods are no different than any part of reddit.

    They will be the death of their own spaces sadly.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
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        6 months ago

        So many admins here are exactly like mods. They host themselves because then they have some modicum of power and nobody is above them. They don’t host out of any altrustic or helpful desire; they host to be in charge.

        I know exactly what admin Sapphic is referring to and I 100% agree with their statement.