Communities

Join a few of our fresh communities! Please don’t mind the dust as we work on getting settled.

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Is there a technology-related community you would like to see on Lemdro.id? Share a comment below with your suggestions!

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A Fediverse home for developers

Are you a Lemmy app developer looking for a home community on the Fediverse? We can help with that! Just send us a link to your Github or Play Store product page. We would be happy to host a community for you, including moderation support! No cost, of course. Just reach out to: @ijeff@lemdro.id.

  • isdfoa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    2 years ago

    Imo I feel like given the size of the community there is too much segregation. All these android related topics should all just be in /c/android until we reach a critical mass that more organization is required. No one will bother to subscribe to all of those with 0 engagement… And plz don’t delete posts we are so small here! As long as it isn’t spam I’m ok with questions etc. here. The rules shouldn’t be the same as reddit as the community isn’t the same (at least not yet).

    • Madbrad200@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      agree. this is one thing I hate about discord communities too, so many servers have like a million channels but minimal activity. like, you’re killing your own server by segregating everything.

    • SteWi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Totally agree.

      Day after day the mods delete questions and force users over to askandroid, a community with only ~250 subs and 8 active users a day.

      The main community had about 10 new posts within the last 24hrs. A few questions would not hurt at all (5 within the last 24hrs)

      • ijeff@lemdro.idMEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        We unfortunately don’t have the ability to tag posts on Lemmy, which would allow people who don’t want to see certain content to filter them out. Similar to memes (which we posted a discussion thread about), there tends to be a love it or hate it opinion on specific questions.

        There are pluses and minuses to each approach, but Separating it out means folks can choose whether to subscribe to one or both - with them appearing together from the subscribed view.

        I’d also just flag that viewing a community subscriber count from a different instance will only show you the number of folks subscribed from your same instance.

        For example, !askandroid@lemdro.id has 762 subscribers. You’d have to visit lemdro.id/c/askandroid directly to see the cumulative count (although subscribers from certain instances may still not appear correctly).

        But I do understand wanting more eyes on any particular question, but it can often be better if the folks seeing the post are the ones who have intentionally subscribed for that content. Happy to revisit this with an discussion thread in the near future though!

        • SteWi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          The metrics I quoted may not be precise, but they are still representative. How many more subs does android have on your instance compared to askandroid?

          That aside: Just look at the post & engagement numbers!

          My argument is that, at the moment, the community is too small for so many specific sub-communitites. And this approach sends users into oblivion.

          Most of the deleted questions aren’t even reposted in the other sub, and if they are get way less responses.

          • ijeff@lemdro.idMEnglish
            3·
            2 years ago

            Yeah, I definitely didn’t mean it as a rebuttal. It’s just an observation I recently also shared with mods who weren’t sure if things were bugged out or not (we have a few modding from different home instances). One of the many Lemmy quirks!

            I do know there are folks who would actively unsubscribe from !android@lemdro.id if it were loosened up, but I do take your point. I’m checking in with fellow mods (time zones are tricky) about the option of posting up a community discussion thread on this. Thanks for the input!

  • Clipboards@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    2 years ago

    Absolutely floored at how active this instance & community is. It’s like I never left Reddit.

    Cheers!!

    • User17w9a@lemdro.idEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Lemmy is pretty cool but I’ll have to admit the overall user base is too small for now. Don’t get me wrong I want this to replace reddit but there simply isn’t enough communities to fill every niche like reddit. The communities that fill a specific niche that I am subscribed to on here have less than 100 users.

      • gelberhut@lemdro.idEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        The number of subscribers you see in an app or in the web shows subscribed from your instance only. The real number of subscribers can be much bigger. But yes, it is not even close to Reddit scale and coverage.

      • ijeff@lemdro.idMEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        Which subs? A lot of subreddits I used to enjoy are now just a shell of what they once were.

      • ayyndrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        It really depends on your interests. If you like Linux, Android, or some leftist topics, Lemmy is quite good. But most other fields are still lacking

  • henfredemars@lemdro.idEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Good to be here! I’m going to try calling this instance my home because of my love of all things Android, its relatively small instance size, and my last instance’s service availability being quite poor.

  • TheTechNerd789@lemdro.idEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    I think it would be great if there was a PC hardware sub as part of this instance, since it is all about tech.

    • startlefrenzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      How would a PC hardware community on this instance differ from the ones on other instances? Lemmy is still pretty small so to me it makes sense to have users flock to one community.

  • darrsil@lemdro.idEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Has lemmy.world been defederated from lemdro.id? When I log into this community using my lemmy.world main account I can’t see anything.

    EDIT: In case anyone else is having this problem, the issue was my language settings. Despite having “Undetermined” set as a language, that was the problem - I clicked the little “X” to unselect any languages and then saved, and now it’s working again.

  • armrods@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    2 years ago

    Can you talk with the mods of googlepixel to move it to this instance from lemmy.world?

  • FutileRecipe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Maybe a GrapheneOS one? That’s what Android/AOSP should be like, in my opinion. Private, secure, and putting the user in charge of the OS. Not sure if it has the userbase for a community, though.

      • FutileRecipe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        2 years ago

        Thanks. I guess I should’ve searched first, but it’s handy that I can predict the past.

      • FutileRecipe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        2 years ago

        As an aside…I just tried to post there, and that Community has disabled new posts. It’s one person posting stuff with no comments, so it’s closer to a delayed RSS feed than a community for discussion and interaction.

        Also, as you mentioned, that’s on lemmy.ml and not lemdro.id where this post was asking about Communities here.