You look a bit skinny, son.
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I think what we can try to do is to create an active community.
In the old place, I recognized I really came for the comments. That's why I try to keep my threshold for commenting low and comment often.
Even if it's just to thank someone for a good comment or other low effort commenting, I like to think it helps.
We definitely need better onboarding. I am pushing for this on piefed via directs to newcomers@piefed.zip for new users to introduce themselves
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We definitely need better onboarding. I am pushing for this on piefed via directs to newcomers@piefed.zip for new users to introduce themselves
It's that live now for Piefed.social ?
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Is this counting Piefed?
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It's that live now for Piefed.social ?
I haven't checked personally. Requires making new accounts to check each time
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Clicks "All", "Top Six Hours"
- Sees impersonal biased news sources reporting how bad the world is
- Every post repetition of the one above it
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Clicks "Comments"
- Scrolls for a while
- Finds one person talking about how good their day is or one topic they're passionate about
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Is this counting Piefed?
No. It says lemmy only so no piefed or mbin
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Unlimited growth is capitalist mindset. Stability and community are what we value here.
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I haven't checked personally. Requires making new accounts to check each time
It should also fire when you manually make a user from the admin panel, if you want to test it out
https://chat.piefed.social/#narrow/channel/3-general/topic/Onboarding/near/7719
You're an admin IIRC?
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Clicks "All", "Top Six Hours"
- Sees impersonal biased news sources reporting how bad the world is
- Every post repetition of the one above it
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Clicks "Comments"
- Scrolls for a while
- Finds one person talking about how good their day is or one topic they're passionate about
Be the change you want to see. This is your time to shine.
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It should also fire when you manually make a user from the admin panel, if you want to test it out
https://chat.piefed.social/#narrow/channel/3-general/topic/Onboarding/near/7719
You're an admin IIRC?
Staff. I don't think I can do that. I can check later
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Honestly, this is fine. This is a healthy community. If we had an exponential growth curve, the AI bots, clout-chasting influencers, marketers and data-mining scrapers would be all over these instances, and Lemmy frankly has very poor tools to deal with it.
There aren't the niche communities, I agree that that's regrettable. But we really do run into scaling problems.
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I think what we can try to do is to create an active community.
In the old place, I recognized I really came for the comments. That's why I try to keep my threshold for commenting low and comment often.
Even if it's just to thank someone for a good comment or other low effort commenting, I like to think it helps.
Ugh that’s a really good point. I need to work on more ‘whatever’ throw away comments
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It's that live now for Piefed.social ?
Yep, it's live.
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Honestly, this is fine. This is a healthy community. If we had an exponential growth curve, the AI bots, clout-chasting influencers, marketers and data-mining scrapers would be all over these instances, and Lemmy frankly has very poor tools to deal with it.
There aren't the niche communities, I agree that that's regrettable. But we really do run into scaling problems.
There is a slow decline though. I don't want exponential growth, but growth is important imo at this stage
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I'm getting Déjà vu as it reminds me of someone on Mastodon posting a graph of Mastodon's daily users going down. Can't remember if it OP of that post (Mastodon post, not this Lemmy one) or a news article that was like "Is this a downfall for Mastodon?". Nope, it's still around and I will argue, Mastodon is at it's own lane which feels unfair it get compared to Twitter which feels like an Apple and Oranges compassion
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Staff. I don't think I can do that. I can check later
Ah, I misremembered!
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Yep, it's live.
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Clicks "All", "Top Six Hours"
- Sees impersonal biased news sources reporting how bad the world is
- Every post repetition of the one above it
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Clicks "Comments"
- Scrolls for a while
- Finds one person talking about how good their day is or one topic they're passionate about
I blocked all the news channels, location channels (since they're 90% news anyways), and a few extra that kept getting bad news related comments or trollish crap, and the top feeds are usually pretty good. They don't change too much over a day, but at least it no longer feels like doomscrolling.
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Clicks "All", "Top Six Hours"
- Sees impersonal biased news sources reporting how bad the world is
- Every post repetition of the one above it
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Clicks "Comments"
- Scrolls for a while
- Finds one person talking about how good their day is or one topic they're passionate about
- !casualconversation@piefed.social
- !wholesome@reddthat.com
- !nicememes@sopuli.xyz
Also, consider switching to Piefed to be able to use the built-in keyword filter. I haven't seen US news since using it.
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I blocked all the news channels, location channels (since they're 90% news anyways), and a few extra that kept getting bad news related comments or trollish crap, and the top feeds are usually pretty good. They don't change too much over a day, but at least it no longer feels like doomscrolling.
It's great that we can individually curate our feeds but what I think the person you replied to is highlighting is that the first impressions a new user may get is repetitive doomer content. That's the nature of sorting by all and our instance-based approach, but it's definitely an experience which may put new people off
