I would love some way to focus more on the effort posts. both to be able to see them more myself and get them more visibility. Especially over time. Even if something get lots of upvotes it'll only be on the front page for a day or less. Or worse: lost in hundreds of comments in the megas. But saying this I know it would require some sort of consistent curatorial-type labor. So idk.

I find compared to reddit, Lemmy in general is not as encouraging for effort posts because they get lost. Is there even a good way to search relevant comms? The whole reason I started using reddit was that you could find so much good information. Also the "flare" for posts was really helpful in reddit.

I don't know if that would be relevant to general recruitment because the bottle neck is likely earlier than this. But if you want to encourage nerdy behavior and nerd retention than it is an issue.

it seems as though this site is a barely tenable balance between shitposting and nerdism. Both required and both facilitate each other but always a pervasive tension .

Who are you looking to have join? What would they be interested in?

Since it seems that many users came here in the wake of their past communities being closed, destroyed, banned, ruined etc, maybe it would make sense to keep an eye open for endangered leftist spaces and give them an invite. These are moments when people are actively searching for new spaces and have space to fill in their lives.

Here is a general purpose list of websites that may soon close: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Deathwatch

But leftists are always getting kicked out of wherever they are at.

One element of hexbear that the existing users really enjoy and value is the cliquishness. Its a lot of in jokes and references. Constant callbacks to specific threads that happened years ago and either aren't online or aren't findable. Having been here for a year and a half I can mostly follow the main themes but lots of it wooshes past me. People like to pull rank and show how long they've been here. Once you are in a group like this it is extremely comfortable and nice and you feel connected to other people.

I am not saying this as any sort of criticism. It is what it is and overall I like it. but it is inherently difficult to recruit people into such a scene. New users are at a disadvantage. Plus there is the dynamic state of behavioral expectations and current meta discourse.

If the site wanted to make an effort to grow, it would need an idea about how facilitate integration of new users.

I can't imagine a successful recruitment campaign not leading to hella drama. It would inherently change the character of the site.

I've never found any Lemmy post by searching even though I know there are relevant posts to things I search for. I mostly use duck duck go. Is Lemmy even included in search engines?

@Whatsnots too: after reading this lovely sub thread I saw someone showing their weaving in another mega https://hexbear.net/comment/5670202 Thought youse might be interested.

I dont think there is a mechanism in Lemmy to "follow" someone is there? So this persons must have your profile bookmarked to open it up regularly? Or they have an RSS reader to keep track of their enemies.

what about the many hot union summers and building the may 1st general strikes I keep hearing about

human?

we expect masc Hexbear users to participate

what's "masc"?

YES I completely understand & agree

lots of people hoarding the most best quality versions of south park, collecting every Nirvana bootleg ever created, and seeding torrents of the complete collection of Playboy scanned at highest quality. These will be preserved til the very end of humanity's computing ability if not beyond. Everything else it is a total coinflip as to what happens to it.

archive.org isn't immune from the white/male/anglo/affluent bias but they have some organizational impulse against it. I wish they would articulate more strongly the importance of diverse media preservation because their voice carries weight among the amateurs with time/resources/expertise to actually do this work on a volunteer basis.

People even started to believe the song had somehow crossed into our dimension from a parallel universe, as apart from this recording, there was no trace of it, like it had never existed.

Its so weird in human context. 200+ years ago nothing was ever directly recorded in this way and nobody could have conceived of this cognitive problem.

Now peoples minds are fully adapted to the idea that if something happened there must be media of it. Pics or it didn't happen. Full adaption to total surveillance has been achieved.

Now going back to my dorm room for another bong hit.

@SeventyTwoTrillion I'm not a regular here so not sure of the conventions. Did you make this map? If so very nice! I have one suggestion which is instead of titling it "to present" put the date in so when the image because separated from the text it'll be more useful. If not your work could just add it in the edge somewhere.

(On mobile with no emojis but someone remind me to add "graphic design is my passion" later on.)

you gotta get a mouse game for cats, they hate it

mfw when everyone is constantly addressing my NOT TRANS child as "they/them" because of seeing "x" and thinking it's the "sex" marker

NYT says less than $3.5M, which is really not very much.

Variety:

The Connecticut families of victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting that had sued Jones and Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems LLC, backed the bid by The Onion to purchase Infowars’ intellectual property, including its website, customer lists and inventory, certain social media accounts and the production equipment used to put Jones on the air. The Connecticut families agreed to forgo a portion of their recovery to increase the overall value of The Onion’s bid, “enabling its success,” according to lawyers for the families.

So like also some cameras, contact lists, trademarks etc.

The real thing they bought was assurance nobody else could buy it. Especially those customer lists. Lists like that built the modern Right.

I don't know enough about lemmy admining to tell if the instructions provided are trivial to implement or a big messy side project.

Why doesn't every instance have this....?

looking at the repo issues, I see there is just activity 6-12 months ago... so either they got it functional enough for now, or gave up. I am guessing it works given https://wiki.slrpnk.net/

cooooool!

I also think wikis are a big missing feature compared to reddit.

However until such a feature is added there are various sources of free wikis such as code forges, miraheze.org, riseup.net etc. And if there's flexibility about the software (not a wiki but another format) many more.

But going to another website, having to create a separate account, then someone has to manage all that, is a lot more work than having it integrated.