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Also flagged up here.

Lots of people love to cuddle dogs as self-care and by golly, that’s just as wholesome as it gets.

This message is about as wholesome as it gets.

Who doesn’t love cuddling a dog? I bet even cat people wouldn’t say no.

Brian Blessed once sent me a Christmas card with “GORDON’S ALIVE” in big letters across it. My username is from Flash Gordon, not Star Wars or Warhammer.40k.

It’s been my nickname for 30+ years, so I went with it when I started out online.

I sometimes wonder about setting them loose just so we can ask them questions like “so you are a fan of having sex with headless, limbless torsoes… How long have you been a serial killer?”

And one I am glad we Admins got first… crack at.

Has anyone else encountered ad bots in their signup applications?

Yep.

More than that, every community from every instance can be synced but why they didn’t do that in first place? Probably because not overloading instances.

I presume so, it means smaller instances don’t require databases the size of big ones for communities the majority of which they don’t have any interest in.

Between LCB and New Communities it should be enough to get the word out as required.

Even though I’m partly doing it now, automating it is kinda daunting. I’m sure this tool will change in the future, but I would prefer to collect ideas rather than perform them in the short term :)

Yes, there’s no rush - it’s working well as it is, no need to make it over fancy and degrade the core functionality.

I double-checked and they’re the only issues I spotted.

Excellent tool. I’ll be sure to make use of this.

Could a future iteration do something like use !newcommunities@lemmy.world to automatically boost them or do you think it should be only available on request?

Oh and thanks for flagging your accounts as bots (I just checked the feddit.uk one) - as they don’t post, they’re unlikely to pop up on people’s radars but some people can get a bit twitchy if they aren’t correctly identified.

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I find I have plenty of content. It’s not the firehose of content on Reddit but that means I am not tempted to doomscroll for hours.

Or find a local instance.

So… multi-communities (mc) that can include multi-communities?

If you wanted to get more fine-grained to allow filtering of busy communities (c ), you could add tags (t) to posts so they would be contextual (it would be able to distinguish between rock music and rocks, for example) and could then also be added into multi-communities.

So if you were interested in dinosaurs, you could have an /mc/EarthSciences that contains /mc/Geology, /mc/Meteorology and /mc/Palaeontology and inside the last one you might have /mc/Dinosaurs which might include a few /c/Dinosaurs as well as /t/Dinosaurs, the latter scooping everything else up. /mc/Dinosaurs may also contain /mc/Velociraptors, /mc/TRex, /mc/Spinosaurus, etc, etc.

It would be easy enough to add tags semi-automatically as each community could define relevant ones that’d trigger on keywords,.so a /c/Geology would have /t/Rocks suggested triggered by “rock” or “rocks” (where a /c/Music might pick up “rock” and offer /t/RockMusic). Someone posting would be offered the automatically generated tags to accept, remove or add others from a drop down menu. Posts without tags get flagged for moderators to look at.

Not sure if you’d allow users to create the multi-communities or leave it to the instances admins and/or mods or have a half-way house where users can create them and suggest them to admins.

It also doesn’t help that the icon is tiny and some aren’t really obvious as to what they do - I just hammered away and figured it out in the end.

I’ve been using it for a while.

You can do it through the web interface. There’s a little icon with two overlapping pages.

The ability to post the same post to multiple community’s

Unless I’ve misunderstood, you can do that now.

Kbin has follower support

Which suggests it’s doable for Lemmy, I imagine it just isn’t top of their list as they want to make sure it all integrates nicely with the current set-up.

I’m wondering if you could hook that into the idea of a wiki because an instance could have one as well as a community.

I’m thinking, in the same way a community has a collapsible panel about it (which could become the front page of its wiki), so an instance could have the same. You could then link through from there to other wiki pages or external resources as you liked.