Science Fiction
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If you're going to give it a go, look at my instance (science Fiction and Fantasy Alliance) or the literature cafe one. Hopefully you can get unbanned though.
Ah, beat me to it! https://sffa.community
@[email protected], if you or others move the community somewhere else, make sure to post to new communities or here so we can move with you.
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@izzydata Odd behavior on the part of the admin there, especially as they were adding you as a mod to communities less than two months ago. Feels like they have a stake in Synch bringing in some revenue, and aren't happy about your criticism.
You ran a great community over there, and it's clear you're getting the shaft. If you ever are looking for a home for your content, you've got an open invitation to the @13thFloor - always looking for great scifi across all media.
I'm so sorry to hear that.
I've too been banned from 2 communities without any justification. (I even made a post about it.)
We need to speak up as members of this wonderful community, we need to build a network that works on trust and reason.
Otherwise, Lemmy (and the Fediverse at large) will be no better than the big tech platforms we fight so hard to get away from.
I mean users are the ones that are flocking to lemmy.world to start new communities instead doing that on other instances.
Yeah, I find that particularly worrying. For all its decentralisation, there's a lot of eggs in the LemmyWorld basket.
I don't generally post on lemmy.world if alternative community exists somewhere else. Cross-posting is a good tool for spreading out but it is not really getting used a lot due to mobile clients not handing them and just showing multiple posts in a row (which annoys people).
It's a bit of a discoverability problem I think, much easier to find content on your own instance. (So new communities are opened on instances with lots of people)
Definitely. Lemmy needs to figure out a way to search more globally (e.g. Mastodon relies on tags for discoverability), but there are external tools like https://lemmyverse.net/communities at the moment. I think just as important is people understanding that you can still grow on smaller instances if you produde interesting content. Just start is a bit slower.
Having to use an external tool gets in the way of a lot of people just through friction unfortunately. Lots of the people here are quite techy I think which helps though.
I need to take another look through there though, I keep running out of content.
https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs can help with this, and be run by the instance admin rather than the users
I usually look in all or ine new communities community
All is only really useful in the larger instances because they have the communities federated, but yeh, that does help, especially if you are sorting by new or a short top.
I was instanced banned as well
This is just like reddit, curating content they approve vs what they disapprove
Who knows what this is, was or soon will be
I don't understand why this would happen. Seems silly to ban someone over expressing their opinion when they're doing it in a perfectly sensible way. This stuff makes people worried that they'll get banned for innocent posts. Will we get banned for this?
lemmy.world is dying a slow and painful death, just hop on a more suitable instance.
Will you move the community to another server?
This has kind of soured my enthusiasm for it, but I'll think about it. It is a passion of mine and I love being here, but I'm unsure if it can be the same.
Please do, lemm.ee has been great for me, much faster too, and this is one of my favorite communities.
A fiction specific server I think would be great, rather than just another big instance.
Like literature.cafe
Could be a great place, sffa seems interesting too
Yeah, I really like that one
Sifi.live is available, just need to set up an instance on a vm.
Be warned. Setting up the vm is the easy part. Then you'll have to deal with moderation, users, spammers, etc. It's a much bigger commitment than just running a single community.
I feel you. After the Reddit events, I just don't have the enthusiasm to help maintain many communities anymore. It's hard when you put a lot of work into it and then get treated like shit in response.
You didn't say anything toxic there, I left reddit coz i grew tired of the too many power mad mods it had if lemmy is gonna end up the same then adios.