• JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      13 hours ago

      Wow, that’s awesome! Subscribed!

      Myself, I’m working on formatting a huge list of my favorite online games, a project which I’ve been refining for years. Assuming I understand your sumlemmy correctly, I’ll have to post it there and see if anyone has anything to add…

      • squirrel@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2·
        13 hours ago

        For sure, feel free to post it. We already have a couple of curated lists linked in the sidebar. Always nice to discover some new games.

  • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.eeEnglish
    71·
    13 hours ago

    First of all, thank you so much Blaze for your relentless dedication to the Lemmy project. I continue to be impressed and grateful, both. ❤️

    TBH, I’m also a combo of pissed-off and disappointed by how relatively few Redditors put their “fuck spez” energy in to trying to help Lemmy grow, instead seeming to expect it to be a ready-made substitute for Reddit, prone to tantrums / bitchiness when they encountered minor difficulties. And I’m also disappointed by the actual Lemmings dedicated enough to stay, yet still seem completely content to sit on their arses, not contribute much, and take casual pot-shots at stuff that wasn’t ‘up to standard.’ Take a recent post of mine, for example: (yes it’s my pity-party, and I’ll cry if I want to, lol)

    https://lemm.ee/post/48617161

    As the founder of the community and main content creator, I must say the downvotes hurt on that one! I was also getting accused of going off-topic (I wasn’t) and just ‘pushing a button to create the content’ (it was more like the reverse).

    So in some ways I’ve created a situation in which my users (kinda joking here, kinda not) are bloodsucking parasites who don’t care about my efforts if and only unless they happen to fancy it. Really, that’s perfectly fine with me up until they swarmed on the downvote button.

    But whadya gonna do, right? I can’t just assume peoples’ reactions, and I’m not here to tell others what to do. So in the end, I wound up sulking for a week, then getting back to content creation, and I feel like that’s pretty reasonable in the end. Win-win, so to speak. I guess. Maybe…?

    The real problem of course is that I don’t know how much longer I’m going to be around (significant health issues, and now just living in the USA during the coming administration), and I’d very much like to get our sublemmy running better with user-generated content before I check out.

    Hroom, hroom, hroom, as Treebeard might say…

    • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      10 hours ago

      Lemmy was interesting in the first months but then the fundamentals won and it just looks like worse Reddit. Techies got their orange site, hobbyists never left Reddit, what we have here is anarchists mostly and politics which sucks. All servers feel too political because it was founded on politics. It was founded by commies and that probably will forever reflect in taste of its dramas and annoyances. It has monotonous flavour without this kind of spice of neurodivergency that produces very interesting content. It was there in first months but then those people just went away who knows where.

      Also Reddit on its own as a social formula is kinda shit, it got big more against the chances than because it is somehow inherently good imo

      • Elevator7009@ani.socialEnglish
        3·
        10 hours ago

        I have managed to actively avoid politics during my time here, although on most servers it does require ignoring Local and always ignoring All—far too many communities to block. ani.social has a very safe Local to check for avoiding politics, it’s just anime and manga.

        Because it’s not just explicitly political communities that are chock-full of politics, they are also in meme communities. Someone posts some depressing “relatable” meme and the comments will have people saying “yeah I hate [politician they believe caused the depressing thing in the meme]” or something like that. Whether they have a point or not, and even when I outright agree wholeheartedly it is exhausting. Certain communities post news about their specific topic which sometimes intersects with politics and so that attracts political comments too.

        But I can say with the active political avoidance tactic I do pretty good. I will check out new communities via !newcommunities@lemmy.world and sometimes check an instance’s community list and browse random posts on a community that mildly interested me, that is how I still get content discovery.

        Also, the problem is the number of users. Neurodivergence is, as far as I know, not the statistical majority. Finding 1 neurodivergent in 100 people is a lot easier than 1 neurodivergent people in 3. I’m neurodivergent, I also stick to the things I’m interested in here. So I am probably a lot harder to find unless you share my interests.

        • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          10 hours ago

          Maybe, I don’t usually have high hopes for things like this so I am not terribly sad or disappointed. I try to focus more on real life nowadays as I think internet is doomed and we are getting more stupid every year somehow. Or maybe I am just getting older. It’s not like I am going back to Reddit seriously in any way. I am trying to find some cozy corner and respite from society mayhem

          • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            9 hours ago

            For the record, I don’t think anything you said is wrong. Assuming you’re a generation younger than me (I’m Gen X), I’m kinda furious for my mine (and Boomers) generation screwing your gen like we’ve done. It’s godamn shameful.

            Also, just the basic mechanisms of merciless capitalism… relentlessly putting short-term profit above all other concerns, screwing the younger gens like yours and others.

            Haha, everyone thinks I’m weird when I say this, but I’ve always felt that our original state (tribalism) was much smarter, on the whole.

            • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              26 minutes ago

              I can’t relate to whatever you said here. I am pretty well off actually, don’t even need to work if I don’t want to. But I sympathise with whatever finance strifes ppl face nowadays. My boomers worked for my future really hard, can’t say I feel fucked over by my parents. On the contrary. They were great people

    • Elevator7009@ani.socialEnglish
      5·
      12 hours ago

      It sure would be nice to have a different upvote/downvote culture. Not sure how to foster that.

      Upvote for helpful, funny, otherwise valuable contribution.

      Downvote for incivility, spam, off-topic, incorrect.

      Note I never said agree or disagree. I upvote a lot of things I disagree with that add to the conversation. Although I also admit I stay far, far away from any political or serious discussion. I think what I am proposing is literally just original Reddiquette (it still is that, it is just that a lot of people do not follow it).

      I do not think I can add anything to the upvote/downvote conversation for your specific post that the users have not already said on it. But I do appreciate you clearly marking off AI-generated content as such, and you putting effort into the community.

      • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        11 hours ago

        It sure would be nice to have a different upvote/downvote culture. Not sure how to foster that.

        Upvote for helpful, funny, otherwise valuable contribution.

        Downvote for incivility, spam, off-topic, incorrect.

        This will probably sound hilariously ironic, but maybe an agreed-upon AI model?

        Nothing’s going to be perfect, and any weakness can be counter-exploited by other AI, but maybe just maybe it could be a start?

        I upvote a lot of things I disagree with that add to the conversation.

        Respect, and fist-bump. You seem a bit rarish with that. ^^

        I do appreciate you clearly marking off AI-generated content as such, and you putting effort into the community.

        Thank you! I’ve been very careful to do it only 3x so far (and every time marking it explicitly) across ~400 posts, which is why I was taken aback by the hostile reaction. Also, whether one likes it or not, AI is here to stay, and my experience with ChatGPT was amazingly positive and helpful. So let’s not shoot the messenger too much, okay?

        Oh, and also-- IMO Lemmy badly, BADLY needs a tool like RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite) which allows one to make running notes on other users, short of completely blocking them or whatever. I mean, we may not have cumulative karma across Lemmy, but there’s gotta be some way to create a ‘kind-space’ for ourselves, no?

      • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        10 hours ago

        It’s impossible to recognise AI generated content already. If you know what you are doing when prompting. Just by the way. If you filter out AI you just filter out bad prompters

        • Elevator7009@ani.socialEnglish
          1·
          10 hours ago

          I’ll be honest, not sure why I specifically am being replied to with this. I don’t think I talked about how easy or hard it is to recognize AI content in the comment, or about whether it should be filtered out or not.

          I do think you correctly assumed that I am very much not a fan of AI content when someone is trying to pass it as their own effort (I am guessing expressing appreciation for the user marking AI-generated content as such tipped you off?).

          • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            10 hours ago

            I tend to respond just because I want to talk about something sometimes because some comment reminded me of something and then try to loosely attach it to it. I guesssd it’s not the best habit

            Someone told me I speak like I was talking to myself once

            • Elevator7009@ani.socialEnglish
              1·
              10 hours ago

              No worries! Discussions of AI feel like too serious a topic, too hot-button for me to feel great discussing online so I got wary. Thank you for clarifying

    • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      4·
      13 hours ago

      Yes, I saw that post, the reception was quite hostile

      my users

      Could also be people coming from All, so not members of your community

      • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        12 hours ago

        Could also be people coming from All, so not members of your community

        Yup, and on the flipside, I suspect this is also a ‘fortunate zone of discovery’ that we can enjoy these days across Lemmy.

        For example, on Reddit, there’s barely a chance your sub will be randomly seen on ALL unless it’s fairly big and well-established. Which is why I tend to urge people to make the community they want to succeed right now and here on Lemmy. Don’t complain; do it!

        Because in future, that opportunity may no longer be there to catch so many ALL viewers, assuming I’m right in that.

  • hitstun@fedia.io
    5·
    13 hours ago

    My niche little !FloatingIsFun@fedia.io is doing OK. We are no longer the largest magazine on Mbin, recently surpassed by !Hydrogen@fedia.io and !Greece@fedia.io . I’m starting to feel a little burnout and I might start posting there less and in other communities more. I did recently did some sidebar trickery to add images that only appear in Lemmy and Piefed, to compensate for not having a proper banner on those platforms.

    !Resist@fedia.io isn’t my community, but it’s grown fast over the past month. @Nougat@fedia.io is doing a great job collecting information that will be important to protesters in the coming years.

  • LibbEnglish
    9·
    16 hours ago

    Trying to revitalize !journaling@sh.itjust.works. So far, after maybe 3 weeks regularly posting stuff, I’m still the sole poster but members have started commenting which is already great and very encouraging. I’ve also noticed a few new subscribers joining the community, at least 10 (I forgot to note the initial number so it’s probably a little more than that), which I find very encouraging too.

    That being said, I have zero idea what I’m doing (and how well), I just want to try. I asked for the community ‘lead’ (is that how I should say?) because, well, it had been inactive for a year or so. And because no one else asked for it. And because as a lifelong journaler myself I know how useful (and so much more than that) keeping a journal is. It was so sad to see it not moving at all, I wanted to give the community a chance to grow and become more active.

    I’ve discovered Fedigrow this very morning and it feels like it’s exactly the place I didn’t now I urgently needed to find. I’ve started reading a few discussions and already grabbed a few cool ideas. Thx :)