Feel free to chime in on https://lemm.ee/post/58832070?scrollToComments=true
Sorry, I wasn't clear. Encryption is enabled as a room setting at room creation, it's not user dependent
@[email protected] another reason I prefer not to enable encryption
To answer your question, it depends if encryption is enabled or not. If it is, then indeed messages are only available since you join
Interesting, thanks for sharing
Thank you for sharing!
Seems like they get a bit of media coverage lately: https://www.chip.de/nachrichten/whatsapp,125120/sogar-made-in-germany-neue-whatsapp-alternative-geht-ab-sofort-an-den-start_2d7693bb-e325-4388-af6b-12a087d977bc.html
If it's a one off share thing it's probably fine the way you do it.
I guess our perspectives are different because I'm more active on communities that are active "in the long run", such as [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Also, most of the value of Reddit and Lemmy comes from the comments. Having splintered discussions in several similar communities prevents interesting conversations from happening.
Every community has their own rules and moderation styles and people may not agree with 1 of them.
What are the differences in rules and moderation styles between [email protected] , [email protected] and [email protected] ?
I believe we should leave it to the community to naturally decide where they want to go and what should exist (something that shouldn’t or has no interest will die out by itself)
[email protected] weekly active users: 6500
[email protected] weekly active users: 1400
Where are the active alternative communities with similar rules to
Having one community allow people to search for recommendations in one place. Having three or four of them is not convenient in that regard.
People want the place with the most people to ask their questions. Having three or four communities gives them choice overload https://lawsofux.com/choice-overload/
You mention crossposts, but they don't prevent all of the conversation to happen in one place, usually the larger community
The alternative is to use the PDFs provided by the Moniteur belge.