Starting my day off with this absolutely cursed image, thank you OP.
Proud multicrafter, making cool stuff and all over the Fediverse like a rash. Find my various stuff at https://linksta.cc/@thegiddystitcher
Gamedev alter ego: @TeaHands@lemmy.world
Starting my day off with this absolutely cursed image, thank you OP.
This is definitely a cool but very niche feature that I and nerds like me would use, but the vast majority of normal* folk never would. So for that reason it’s probably not going to be any kind of priority to add. But hey, in the meantime, we’ve always got footnotes!
* “normal” by Lemming standards, anyway
Ohhhh! Ok I getcha, I read it as being songs by Lemmy users, that was just my brain filling in the blanks I think. Yeah, completely different thing, ignore me 😅
Any affiliation with FediVision or is this a whole separate contest? If so you might need rules about whether people can submit songs to both!
I’m in for following this either way though, Eurovision fiend that I am.
Hey, bit late to this discussion (found it while searching for something) but since you seemed interested in a casual user’s pov:
I’m a member of quite a few Lemmy communities that are really small, and I’m very active on Mastodon. So having those small communities in a list feed on Mastodon is really handy since I don’t miss anything and can just jump in with a reply on stuff without switching over to Lemmy.
I also post a lot of the same type of stuff to both platforms and sometimes it makes sense to keep that separate, but sometimes with niche interests it’s nice to be able to cross-post and get both groups of people chatting together in the comments.
Of course this is a moot point because federation between my Masto instance and Lemmy is currently broken, but it was really great before and I miss it a ton.
Oh, yesssss.
Went here on an unexpected holiday diversion over summer. It’s genuinely the most beautiful place I have ever seen in real life. Weak mojitos, though.
(also technically not a fjord)
So excited for this to roll out, I’m sure it’ll need further tweaks as we go but it’s encouraging to hear positive reports from the start!
Seems like the specific issue is this:
If the community is on your local instance, it doesn’t show the instance in the dropdown. If it’s a remote instance, it does.
However instead of using the actual unique URL of the community, it uses the display name. So in this case lemmy.ml/c/ireland
and lemmy.ml/c/ireland_on_lemmy
both have their display name set to just “Ireland”.
I think differentiating between local and remote communities is actually pretty useful but obviously the second thing is a problem when you’ve got competing communities on one server. Which I guess is a thing that people are doing.
Maybe instead of:
it should be showing
which not only fixes this problem but also means you can see how to get to a community to go check it out before posting there (this comes up sometimes in the process of crossposting) and it’ll stop, say, a mod giving their community an unrelated name to confuse people into posting something inappropriate or whatever.
There should probably also be a character limit on the display name because that UK one is obnoxiously taking up all of the horizontal space and leaving no room for its actual identifier.
!battletech@lemmy.world and !satisfactory@lemmy.world by the looks of it, for anyone passing by who has an interest in either 😉
I was saying the other day there’s been a noticeable uptick in activity in some of my favourite arts & crafts type communities over the last couple of weeks. Probably just a temporary blip, and our numbers are still quite precarious, but it’s encouraging nevertheless.
For me the level of interesting content is just about spot on now, but obviously it depends on your interests.
I do have one suggestion though. Whenever you feel the urge to comment about how “hobby” communities are too dead, be more specific. Which hobbies? Which communities? Every time you mention one, the chances that someone who didn’t even know it existed sees that comment and finds the community increase.
Look I’ll start. I wish there were more crocheters around to liven up !crochet@lemmy.ca a bit.
Word of mouth is how niche communities grow.
(p.s. also spend some time blocking the news communities if you’re not into that stuff, it makes a massive difference)
I actually do this with a few crafting communities that rarely get new posts, makes it easy to see when something pops up in one of them.
It’s not ideal obviously and I do hope we get these sorts of features eventually, but in the meantime it’s a decent workaround for a very specific situation.
Various other crafty hobby type communities listed at https://lemmy.world/post/1715954 too, for anyone mostly interested in that category of thing.
What does “saving” a song even mean? I’m old and confused
Yeah this is a normal phrase in British English too. Today you learned!