NPC means “nihilistic proletariat/customer” now. Prove me wrong.

If I recall correctly people did this fairly often with Reddit links in Digg. It works.

Perhaps I should stop being a lazy bum and do the same with my crack theories :D

\o/

Damn.

Well, let’s hope they sees it. Trying it even further might increase her mod workload.

Thanks.

And… like, Lemmy is not perfect. We got a small userbase, official mod tools are shitty, so goes on, the points HiddenStill raised are all valid. But the way that things are going, I genuinely feel like the community will be safer (or at least less unsafe) here than in Reddit.

Still no deal, when I open it in a private window: https://old.reddit.com/r/Transgender_Surgeries/comments/1ik1o02/the_future_of_this_sub/mc330ur/

I used the lemmy.zip link you’ve provided. I feel like the issue isn’t the link, but new account in a subreddit that likely has pretty high filters.

Well, worst hypothesis if HiddenStill doesn’t see it, I hope that other people can relay that info.

I did ;_; I completely forgot how Reddit works in this regard. I hope that HiddenStill can still see it as a mod.

In case they don’t, I’ll copypaste the content here:

I don’t claim to have “expert knowledge” on Lemmy, but I was discussing the topic there with one of the users of this sub (hi bayesianbandit!), and I’ve been in Lemmy for long enough (2021) to know a few things about it.

Can Lemmy can scale to the size required if trans content was banned on reddit.

Lemmy as a network can scale indefinitely. Even if a specific instance is reaching its limit, people can create new instances to split the load.

So the problem is mostly if the “transgender surgeries instance” would be able to handle the load, and how much it would cost. Accordingly to this link, “the 10 biggest Lemmy servers still only have hosting costs of $50-$300/mo”.

I couldn’t find much information on Lemmy’s moderation tools. Currently this sub attracts a lot of hate and chasers, which moderation easily takes care of. In the past the have been excessive amounts, but reddit has cracked down on it, and provides tools to limit it (not very good ones). Lemmy would be unusable without this.

The official mod tools are awful and only suited for small communities. However larger instances developed a few third party mod tools to alleviate the burden, including an AutoMod of sorts.

Lemmy also allows something called “defederation”, where users from one instance cannot interact with users from another instance. The nearest of that in Reddit would be if you were able to prevent all users who posted in a subreddit to post in yours. That helps wonders to keep haters at bay.

Lemmy works by sharing data across multiple instances (computers) and it appears there seem to be privacy concerns about the amount of data on users that is shared. / What is to stop the owners of the instance shutting it down, or the data being lost for any other reason? Although not a corporate it makes no difference. There would be a massive loss of knowledge and history.

The main concern is that data shared with one instance pops up in other instances, due to the federation. That’s both a liability and a feature - because if the original instance goes down, the data is still preserved in the other instances.

Sorry for the double reply!

Done. If anyone here notices some mistake from my part, please do tell me, and I’ll promptly fix it.

Thank you for pinging me! I’ll talk with the mod, OK?

Same here. This “I feel like so” usually coincides with Friday for me.

I forgot to mention, this is in South America. As far as I know, cross-gen households used to be the norm here, and mortgaging your home isn’t common, because there’s simply less social pressure to leave your parents’ home if you can’t afford a house.

My neighbour is almost 60 and she still lives with her mum! (And when she married the husband moved with them.)

I think that it’s fine to still live with family. As long as nobody is a leech or a control freak.

You might be new here but you’re already doing some amazing work - because you’re a member of that community, talking with them about this, plus leading a similar initiative.

I think that the problem can be split into the following parts:

1. Choosing where to host the community.
2. Creating the community, setting up rules, banner, icon… mostly busy work. (I can help with some of those tasks if you want!)
3. Recruiting mods.
4. Setting up the initial content of the community. Just so people have something to read; articles are a great first step IMO.
5. Advertising the community.
6. Setting up a wiki, and copying the content from the Reddit wiki.

I think that a lot of those get simplified if the community is set up in Blåhaj, so perhaps it’s worth waiting until Ada is back from vacations. (Plus the instance is in Australia, so you’ll get less problems than in USA instances.)

Either way odds are that the community owners will need to self-host the wiki.

As a long time user of the sub I can’t express to you how much this person has done for our community and how thankless it’s been. They’ve changed the lives of so many of us and it’s beyond reasonable they are burnt out.

Tell them. Seriously.

Being an e-janny is awful; I’ve been one since old style forums were a thing. You get screeched at, you get to see some disgusting stuff, and people kind of take you for granted, even if without you the community becomes less fun for everyone.

Odds are that this won’t make them feel less burned out, but it’s always heart-warming to know “I did something that had a positive impact on the others’ lives”.

Running to Discord when Reddit goes downhill is like running from the fire to be caught in the frying pan. Sure, it might not be cooking you now; but it’s still made to cook you.

Specially given that it’s a community geared towards gay people, and Discord is hosted in a country that seems to be trying to associate “LGBTQIA+ = pornography” and make pornography illegal.

…and what are we, not people?

A negligible amount of.

It is true, but not the full picture - relying solely on Reddit won’t be sustainable in the long run for that community.

None as far as I know.

It’s a whole saga! You can follow it here. Starting with someone asking

I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can’t take up too much space. What food do I pack?

The old chicken-and-egg problem… (not to be confused with another egg.)

What if someone created and maintained a Lemmy community about the topic, and then contacted that Reddit mod for help? Mostly stuff like:

• hey, would it be fine if we copied the contents of your wiki?
• could you link our community in yours?
• etc.

This would increase the visibility of the information, and provide a backup for both the info and discussion space, without burdening HiddenStill even further. They didn’t just say “I’m burned out” - they also sound burned out.

That “someone” needs to be a trans person who has an active interest on the topic.

(Just my two cents. I’m cis. I can wear someone else’s shirt but not their skin.)

I’m laughing in loud voice here. DERP!

…to be fair with your SO: when I saw “rizz” on the internet first time, I thought it had something to do with ricing (cars, computers, etc) 😖

Done!