I’m guessing there’s just so much money (and power) in that kind of thing that it’s simply here to stay.

Sadly not relevant to my specific post, but I appreciate you spreading the word.

I think making a personal community, throwing it at lemmy-federate, and then posting it there really works best in this case.

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I guess I have some homework to endlessly procrastinate do.

I reserve the right to feel guilty, embarrassed, sad, etc. for inappropriate reasons in much the same way I reserve the right to feel positive emotions for similarly nonsensical reasons, but I appreciate the logic of it and you for dispensing it.

Thank you.

In their defense, a feature that’s not known by everyone isn’t really the fault of the people who don’t know about it.

Thanks to you, now they and I know about it.

Unrelated but is there a way to convert someone else’s instance+community link to your own?

Obviously not faulting you for this, but when I click on your link I get taken to lemmy.zip, where I do not have an account so I cannot participate. I spent some time manually searching for that community on my own instance, which of course is a bit annoying for newbies and I would think there is a way around that I haven’t found yet.

Until now I honestly thought I’d have to host an Instance to create a Community, for some reason. Now I’m a bit embarrassed.

Thank you.

Edit for visibility:

This answer is the direction I chose to go in, mainly for simplicity’s sake.

If the fediverse gods are watching, it might be worth considering automatically making communities associated with people’s usernames. Maybe reserved automatically, but invisible unless you opt-in? That way nobody can create harassment communities targeting your username on your home instance. Just a thought.

Seems like a good community but sadly doesn’t fit my use-case for reasons I haven’t yet stated.

Thank you for the referral , though.

After poking around it does actually seem relevant, though it’s always against my nature to try to grab someone else’s limelight.

Yes, but definitely not proper form, as my left hand rests on WASD+CTRL/Shift+Space.

I’m around 100 wpm, so maybe it doesn’t matter.

While I completely understand people who can’t get to 100 wpm (much like people at 110+ completely understand me), I cannot fathom young adults who cannot touch-type (barring disability, obviously).

People rushing to log into their alts to declare anyone who participates in their secretly favorite communities is a degenerate so that whoever they think monitors their primary account might discover they are A Very Good Person:

The nice part about my idea is that even with those hurdles in mind, I still proposed it knowing that all it would take is one person to happen upon whichever post or subreddit to auto-scrape and get the discussion on Lemmy going.

Let’s be real; 99% of the reason Lemmy is less popular than Reddit is copy+pasting a link, writing your own title, etc. is more effort than 0, therefore the Lemmy-Reddit hybrids like myself don’t bother.

Hell, even the staunchly anti-Reddit Lemmites who could be parasitically “stealing” posts and comments to steal Reddit’s thunder don’t do it. There are other things they’d rather do, evidently.

Now that I think of it, after using the word “scrape,” it could be that Reddit ToS follows most websites’ in that scraping is explicitly forbidden, so displaying the open source code (or even using it) would incur legal action from Reddit.

Of course not. That’s why I said “To the best of my recollection the last I’ve seen bits of traffic data here and there, […]”

To moderators. I want to say even to regular users if your comment/post gets enough traction on New Reddit, i.e. hundreds or thousands of views.

Other, similar websites also show such data to those in privileged positions as well. If they’re pretty sure you’re not a bot, they give it freely. Whatever tier above “average user” and especially “a person interested in growing the website out of self-interest” a given website has, it’ll probably be available. I’m sure you can imagine a half dozen that are on the money.

To the best of my recollection the last I’ve seen bits of traffic data here and there, it’s large, but not large in comparison to the US and India.

Here’s my Amateur Coder waving the Wand of Coding idea:

What if we had a FOSS browser extension that scraped Reddit passively, uploading everything you see as you browse (except PII like your username and PMs and such) via bot to Lemmy (on a delay so they can’t pinpoint your identity as easily?)

I can’t be the only one who splits their time between Lemmy and Reddit, and would much rather participate here than there, but there’s much less to comment on here.

My favorite subreddit (/r/tampa) recently perma-banned me for extremely petty reasons, but /c/tampa is a ghost town.

Reddit would probably sooner just lop off their entire EU userbase than comply.

No offense to Europeans because I love y’all, but you are a drop in the bucket for global (English) internet usage.

On a long enough timeline, every Lemmy thread eventually becomes one of the following:

1. ACAB

2. Trump bad

3. FOSS good

4. Reddit bad

5. Socialism (generally, via vanguard party) good

6. Tankies (i.e. #5) bad

Not that I disagree with most of the above, but we need some normies in here to balance things out, so invite them and don’t demonize them. That’s made trickier by Reddit banning people for talking about the Fediverse/Lemmy, so you have to be clever about it.