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  • Devgard@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    813·
    1 year ago

    In respect to you guys modding the original r/Android, I will leave this up, unlocked. But please, don’t make any more new posts here advertising r/Android V2.

    Let the games begin I guess.

    Edit: Please read this.

    • ijeff@lemdro.idEnglish
      343·
      1 year ago

      We didn’t post this one up! I posted on /r/android shortly before bed and felt it would’ve been in bad taste if we had posted here without discussing with you folks first (I also admittedly slept in, as it’s a holiday today for Canada Day Weekend).

      I was actually hoping to reach out to you and Mike to see if you’re interested in joining our mod team on !android@lemdro.id. We hope to carry forward the same kind of content philosophy from /r/android prior to our lockdowns, namely discussions and items of collective interest, and avoiding specific, technical support questions that can overtake large communities - and think you both align pretty well with our overall emphasis on keeping it civil and cordial.

      For a bit of background on the instance, @cole@lemdro.id has been spending quite some time getting lemdro.id setup and optimized for us with a focus on ensuring backend scalability to handle load. The hope was to have an instance where major tech and other subreddits could feel comfortable moving to, without the significant performance issues that could leave folks with bad first impressions (a number of us were around for the waves of migration from Digg to Reddit).

      Folks are currently reaching out to their respective mod teams at other large tech subreddits to see if there’s interest in joining Lemmy as well. We also have a number of developers with us exploring opportunities to contribute code improvements and fill gaps within the Lemmy ecosystem (e.g., accessibility improvements, moderator tools, fighting spam), with at least one bug fix already contributed to the Lemmy Github!

      If you and Mike are interested, please do reach out! It would be great to have you both. Given Lemmy doesn’t support group PMs or Modmail, let me know if you want to connect somewhere else - I’m on Telegram, Discord, and Element but would be happy to chat anywhere.

      • Mike Stevens 🇦🇺@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        131·
        1 year ago

        Thanks Jeff, I appreciate the candour and respectful response here. I confess I was initially miffed that somebody would promote a ‘competing’ c here, but I quickly realised I’m not interested in rivalries here. Life’s busy enough as it is!

        I think we’re doing pretty well here, but the idea of an instance dedicated to tech is appealing. Happy to chat about it. I’m @mikestevens on Telegram.

      • Devgard@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        Thank you for clarifying and for the consideration, I really appreciate you taking the time to write this out.

        Regarding my response earlier, I made that reply on the assumption that it were you guys who put this up as a way to take some users back, which taking a step back now, I see that I was very wrong.

        I’ll be making a new mod reply to this post, which should clarify any misunderstandings to prevent new people viewing this post from accidentally making the same assumption I have made.

        If you need to contact me, shoot me a DM and I can share my Telegram details there :)

    • lightrush@lemmy.caEnglish
      102·
      1 year ago

      Why shouldn’t they do “r/Android V2” posts? Is android@lemmy.world “The Android community”? Are we going to put a non-compete rule in writing or spirit for this community? How tone-deaf would this be in the current Reddit upheaval context? The Fediverse is literally about anti-monopilization. !android@lemmy.world just so happens to be one community named “Android” among others on other instances. It also happens to be on the largest instance for now. But a successful, large community doesn’t have to be on the largest instance. That’s not how federation works. Ultimately all of us users check the number of user subs before we subscribe or we just sub to all. Being the first to register this community on this instance isn’t what’s gonna determine that. Whichever “The Android community” becomes on Lemmy, it requires moderation work and likely that will determine the final result. If the /r/Android mods want to tell us where the new version of it is, they can do that in a lot more channels than "!android@lemmy.world”, like the various tech or Reddit related communities across the instances. Someone posting this here shouldn’t trigger any special feelings in my opinion as it’s no different or significantly more influential. The battle for creating a Reddit alternative is much bigger one than who’s gonna claim they own this or that piece of land. So I’d welcome every free labor team (mod teams) from Reddit to Lemmy and help them get started even if it means that I have to cede some space. We supported these folks during the blackouts, why should we stop doing so when they decided to migrate? Isn’t that the logical continuation of the same events?

      • Devgard@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Let me explain my reply.

        From my POV, OP’s post initially came across as advertisement, but targeted. Imagine that this community is an Apple store. To me this post seemed as if Samsung or Google had put up an ad directly in the middle of the store, trying to take back some customers.

        It was my mistake to assume that OP posting was one of the mods.

        I’m 100% ok with both communities co-existing, after all, the more content there is, the more likely the Fediverse will succeed. The only reason I was annoyed at first, was because of an advertisement for a similar community that came out of nowhere, with no notice/warning whatsoever, which in hindsight is completely understandable as this post wasn’t at all made by the mods over at !android@lemdro.id.

        Tl;dr I just wasn’t comfortable with how the advertisement just appeared, as it seemed like a direct attack to steal people, but I was most definitely wrong with my assumptions. My reply was made solely on the assumption that the mods of !android@lemdro.id had posted this, and for that I am sorry.

  • sloonark@lemm.eeEnglish
    7312·
    1 year ago

    So we have separate Android communities running on separate instances. I can’t see how this community splintering can be a good thing.

  • Mereo@lemmy.caEnglish
    376·
    1 year ago

    Meh. For me, this community replaces r/android. No thanks you.

  • books@lemmy.worldEnglish
    354·
    1 year ago

    So, if I’m understanding correctly… the mods from reddit, started their own instance are are trying to siphon users over to that?

    • Mike Stevens 🇦🇺@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think this thread was created by one of them — the creator of this thread isn’t listed as a mod over there.

      Like @Devgard I was tempted to lock or delete this thread — I feel like it’s a bit of a shitty thing to post — but it’s pretty clear from the upvotes that most people are excited for it. So… Whatever will be, will be!

  • Devgard@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    181·
    1 year ago

    Update on the post This post was not made by the mods of @android@Android@lemdro.id. This was made by a fellow fan of r/Android and was not made to siphon/steal users as I and many others have incorrectly assumed, so please don’t attack the mods of @android@Android@lemdro.id as they don’t mean any harm!

    • Leclipse@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      92·
      1 year ago

      Sorry for the late reply (I had not checked Lemmy for a while).

      I am just an Android enthusiast and not affiliated with r/Android in any capacity. I genuinely failed to realise that it might be inappropriate and disrespectful towards your community to post this here. I saw the announcement in r/Android and got excited. I should have posted this in other relevent communities.

      Apologies for any inconvenience or offense that I may have caused.

  • Captain_Nipples@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    Crazy. Android was one of, if not THE first, subreddit I subscribed to when I joined Reddit. I was rooting my Galaxy S Edge… Before a shitload of major subreddits were even created… Here we are, almost 12 years later, starting over. Now I’m on my 2 year old GS 21 Ultra

  • Hairyblue@kbin.social
    71·
    1 year ago

    I was part of that subreddit and welcome them to the Fediverse. But I’m in kbin and my efforts to join them are not working. Hope there is a fix for this soon.

    Side question: Is there a website with a list of all interest/communities and its address so we could just search that website and add all the sites we wanted to kbin?

  • Crow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    For android to stay federated with other servers do they need to download all the posts from other servers to their server? I’m not too sure how the fediverse works.

    • Soullioness@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Not quite. From what I’ve read, I think only text is downloaded, pictures and other media are just links. So not everything needs to be downloaded. Also to trigger/maintain this connection (federation) at least one person from your instance needs to be subscribed.

      But you won’t find this community in the search bar because you’re not federated yet. So to trigger the initial federation you’ll need to search for the full URL, the entire URL including “https://” (https://lemdro.id/c/android) It won’t show up at first, so try again in a few seconds, and sometimes you’ll need to try a lot of times if the instances are running slowly. But eventually your instance will find the other community on the other instance.

      But at the time I’m writing this lemdro.id is apparently offline so it won’t work at all right now.

    • ChrV@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I faced the same issue with other new communities as well and I think it’s because of the new lemmy version 0.18? and it’ll be fixed

      • Pamasich@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        It doesn’t look to be 0.18.0 (.1 is supposed to not have issues anymore iirc, that’s why I’m specifying .0).

        This command was brought up in regards to the lemmy.ml issue:
        curl -I --user-agent "kbinBot v0.1" https://lemmy.ml/u/test

        When the lemmy.ml is replaced with any instance running 0.18.0, it’ll give an OK response. With lemmy.ml it gives a Forbidden response.

        But with lemdro.id I get an Internal Server Error.

        The instance claims to be super fast, maybe they forked and optimized the code and broke federation in the process?

        Edit: Also they’re on 0.18.1 anyway, so yeah, it’s not the usual issues.

      • princessofcute@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        It’s strange, I’ve seen other instances that have upgraded to 0.18 that have no issues whereas some have issues. I’ve also seen some that aren’t federating even on earlier versions. lemmy.blahaj.zone upgraded to 0.18 but seems to still be federating just fine with Kbin, but lemmy.ml seems super broken with Kbin. Hopefully it gets resolved soon, I’ve run across several communities I want to follow but can’t due to federation being broken