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To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks

Resources:

https://lemmy-federate.com/ to federate your community to a lot of instances
[email protected] to organize overall fediverse growth
[email protected] to keep tabs on where new users might come from :)
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Megathreads:

How (and when) to consolidate communities? (A guide)
Where to request inactive or unmoderated communities? (A list)

Rules:

Be respectful
No bigotry

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PSA: Server admins, you can hide communities from the All feed using /api/v3/community/hide (feddit.org)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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You can do this with /api/v3/community/hide, or in the database by setting community.hidden. Unfortunately this is not available from lemmy-ui yet.

From a comment by nutomic: https://lemmy.ml/comment/16090216

Context: https://lemmy.ca/comment/13891923

Not sure if that feature was known to everyone, so sharing this as its own post.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

While I see the usefulness of this, I kinda hate the idea of having to rely upon social contacts to discover communities that would be of interest to me - I'm not terribly social, and I don't keep a collection of online friends. I come out of my hole, look around, get my fix of whatever I need at that moment, then hide away again. Yeah, it's pathetic, but that's my life. Please don't make my world any smaller.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

No worries, I won't be hiding anything. I'm of the opinion that stuff that breaks the rules is removed and any other content is up to individuals to block.

And I'm not US based, the current political scene there doesn't affect me directly. You're free to discuss abortions in Texas all you want on my instance!

Thanks for the ping @[email protected].

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are you aware of [email protected] ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, ty for that. However, that relies upon communities wanting to be found, doesn't it? I'm more concerned with communities that may be forced to keep things quiet due to being out of political favor, social acceptance, or even legality. Especially with the incoming administration, I fear that may be more of a valid concern than in the past. Discussing how to get an abortion in Texas, for an easy example of something that might be targeted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Indeed. Don't worry, your instance will be fine, nobody is changing any feed for anyone, and I'm sure @[email protected] would ask the instance member feedback before doing anything.

[email protected] might interest you too

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Thanks - I've subbed & will check it out.