THREE POINT FIVE MILLION COMMENTS ON HEXBEAR
SOME OF THE BEST POSTERS OF ALL TIME, WE NEVER STOP POSTING.
I will never stop posting. I will never stop commenting. I will eat these liberal maladjusted grass touchers without a second thought.
Hexbear's decision to auto-subscribe people to comms that they could opt out of if they wanted to plays a major role here. Most hexbear comms have 20k+ subscribers. The idea was to create a "default" set and it worked.
Despite the fact that c/main has been closed for literally years it also has the highest post count of any comm which is hilarious. Hexbears are posters.
c/gardening has more subscribers and posts than 90% of beehaw lol
I like how even for active users it's other instances
BUT BY GOD CAN WE FUCKING POST
top 5 in active users
And this is with an entire day where the site was offline lol
if you can't say it with our incredible collection of emojis, probably doesn't need to be said.
disturbing that Beehaw is so dominant when I sort comms by active users
I mean, they also didn't end up in a situation where they defederated from two huge instances so the handful of moderators could deal with it so
i see a fair amount of people complaining that they didn't understand beehaw had defederated from over 300 other instances when they just followed a link and joined the most reddit-like one.
who knows how itll shake out though. funny that the libs built the wall though.
which they showed little no interest in scaling up to overcome, preferring to focus on development. Hexbear has way more server horsepower than they do, for example. They have one VPS and its not even that big. Just different priorities. I would have preferred they take a more mixed approach to sure, limit applications but still keep the site stable, and maintain its status as a hub that won't outright ban commies... but it's not my site.
I made an account over at lemmy.world and a lot of people there thought it was so fucking stupid that they left.
"let's start a new reddit!"
"yes!"
"But this time you can only join if you like raytheon, oh and communism is bad, and you have to write us a whole ass essay about how much of a lib you are"
"Oh.."
Literally got so happy when I heard about this place. You guys rule.
It's full of the worst kind of epic redditors who literally can not put down their phones to touch grass/eat ass
Most of its usership is much, much newer, like from the last two weeks, so it's not that surprising.
We can take care of it if we work together
I have no idea what Beehaw is but it sounds like
and as such 
From my experience on Lemmy, we'll have to go door knocking to get comms staff to do anything. I'll be pleasantly surprised if here is better.
Are you new here? This place is pretty tight knit compared to most online forums.
I'm holding votes on the ones I mod, hit us up with ideas!
I didn't think to pin them, search for them in dunk tank/music/memes tho! Sorry, im walking the dog now so I can post a direct link latee
Resisting the urge to make a clichéd joke about German humour.
Haha look at Communities, by Posts. Second result is the biggest botfest I've seen yet. All posts seem to be made by a (self-declared) bot, nearly 30,000 posts, only 23 total comments.
Some lemmy instances are making archives, and they should be defederated. Not the entire instance, the archive part. I didn't know it was possible until I saw it on a site that only had active posters linking cute guinea pig pictures (https://lemmy.tf/) but also a had a bot running to archive read-only posts from subreddits such as CitiesSkyline, nosleep, revenge while specificially de-federated (https://defed.lemmy.tf/). Otherwise it would also be dominating stats with over 30k.
Yeah, I'm wondering what their 'smart sort' is. Whether it's a crappy algorithm, factors in federation, or has manual curation.
Since Lemmygrad is top-15 in every Instance metric and top 5 in most, and is absent in 'smart sort',
I suspect curation.[edit - read reply from blobjim!]Some code from the GitHub repo:
if (orderBy === "smart") { communties = communties.sort((a, b) => b.score - a.score);
The scoring algorithm: https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer/blob/main/crawler/src/crawl/output.js#L124
It says it takes away from it if you block instances. Seems like that should cause it to be lower.
let score = 0; // having a linked instance gives you a point for each link if (linkedFederation[siteBaseUrl]) { score += linkedFederation[siteBaseUrl]; } // each allowed instance gives you points if (allowedFederation[siteBaseUrl]) { score += allowedFederation[siteBaseUrl] * 2; } // each blocked instance takes away points if (blockedFederation[siteBaseUrl]) { score -= blockedFederation[siteBaseUrl] * 10; } // also score based subscribers score = score * community.counts.subscribers;Looks like they just have tons of subscribers.
At the same time, I think it's gonna be a case of the most manipulative and spooky instance simply winning out because they aren't playing nice. Pretty easy to game the system with fake accounts, or lying about your own numbers.
hexbear still isn't showing up for me on there. Did they hardcode us out?
Yeah, comments, posts, instances, communities, even search. Zero hexbear.
What the hell is Smart Sort and why does Hexbear not show up on it?
Source code is here:
https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer/blob/main/frontend/src/pages/Communities.jsx#LL96C5-L97C65
https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer/blob/main/crawler/src/crawl/output.js#L223
Or see my comment: https://hexbear.net/comment/3549365
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