People interact with the site that dont have accounts on the site

Making it local only would lock them out of news and discussion about something they interact with

Seems like lemmyverse doesnt have the instance listed at all for some reason, assuming a crawling issue. I reported it on their repository. Would be new since I remember it showing the instance before

You can check in https://programming.dev/communities that programmer humor has way more active users than most communities here

Since mods and admins can't control what gets hashtagged it can hashtag the completely wrong things

For example we have a community called c/loud. This is a cloud community but will be hashtagged with #loud

We also have a community called c/meta and similar other communities but the hashtag should be something similar to programming.dev meta since meta itself doesn't make sense. Currently its assuming you know what scope of meta you're in due to it being attached to the instance but hashtags are free for alls so the hashtag is going to be impossible to follow (other communities that fall within this are comics, events, books as they are programming or programming.dev specific which is currently assumed due to the url)

That would massively hinder growth since actual users would get affected and then leave since they can't actually use the platform

Probably better to set up some link blacklists and then add things to it based on what spammers are linking to

edit: what you linked to is also not a community, did you mean [email protected] or [email protected]?

Its from the microblog side but leaking into lemmy a bit since they mass tag everything they find (which includes lemmy communities)

There is technically a roundabout way you can do it although it involves a bit of actions

I havent fully tested it so may need some variation of the actions to work but:

1. Post gets created as normal in the instance
2. Post get removed through the lemmy ui so that it sends a removal federation action and removes the post everywhere it was federated to
3. Post get unremoved in the database by changing the removed value to false. As this is changing the value itself rather than sending an action this does not federate and only unremoves it for the instance itself

There typically will always be some form of controversy, tends to be just how the admins handle that

I try to keep this instance federated with instances as much as reasonable (the only lemmy instances we really defederate with are burggit and rqd2 since their instance rules break our instance rules, lolicon+DMCA ignoring for the first and very questionable communities in the second (zoophilia, MAP)) and were dealing with the situation in this post internally currently to solve the situation here with blahaj. Should make a post in meta probably tomorrow

I can give some recommendations of some instances with admins ive had positive experiences with (im one of the programming.dev leads though if that affects my stances on this)

• startrek.website - I dont talk with these admins much but the instance tends to be pretty positively viewed across lemmy
• slrpnk.net - one of the other niche instances. Admins seem relatively chill and I dont have anything negative regarding them. Active in helping stop spam accounts (defeds with hexbear + lemmygrad)
• lemmings.world - has been pretty active in making tooling to help out a bunch of admins + the fediverse in general. Made uptime badges that some instances use, a linking system so you can link to something that sends people to the copy of it on their own instance, and a gui for fediseer which a bunch of admins use to keep track of defederations + endorsements (defeds with hexbear + rqd2)

There was some repeated patterns that this user seems to have been doing so I gave them an instance wide ban

• Posts would be deleted and then reposted (especially if the original post had a negative score)
• Conflicting information in some of the articles

Advent of code is an coding advent calendar where a new puzzle is released every day for people to solve

The numbers there (apart from the timer) in the site that was linked can be clicked to bring you to specific puzzles (1 aka Day 1 for the puzzle on the 1st of december, 2 aka Day 2 for the 2nd of december, etc.)

Starting off banner submissions with a quick banner generated from midjourney

Example view of it in lemmy explorer

LemmyBB is just an alternate frontend. It is possible to not federate with any other instances though by turning federation off in the instance settings

A bunch of the users on programming.dev have accounts in smaller and personal instances rather than in p.d itself since they can host instances. You can see some of the logos in our area such as c++ and some of rust are missing