Communities

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

Recommend a Community

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

Seeking Experienced Mods

Are you an experienced mod with an interest in supporting one of these communities or bringing over an existing community from Reddit? just reach out to @[email protected] to chat!

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: @[email protected].

  • isdfoa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    431·
    1 year 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
      13·
      1 year 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·
      1 year 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·
        1 year 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, [email protected] 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·
          1 year 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·
            1 year 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 [email protected] 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!

  • [email protected]@kerala.partyEnglish
    373·
    1 year ago

    Hello everyone, why the mods are removing genuine posts? I know they break some rules you have. TBH there are too many rules, and this is very early stages of lemmy so don’t be so strict. You guys are doing a too good job in my opinion.

    • JshKlsn@lemmy.mlEnglish
      315·
      1 year ago

      These are the same mods from the Android subreddit. That should answer everything you need to know.

      • TheTechNerd789@lemdro.idEnglish
        291·
        1 year ago

        I understand why they are strict on Reddit. The sub is huge, but here, they are imo too strict considering how small the platform is.

        • JshKlsn@lemmy.mlEnglish
          247·
          1 year ago

          I’d give you a genuine answer, but I’m afraid these mods will ban me like they banned me from Reddit for having a negative opinion about Samsung.

          I’m so glad we gave these mods power of the Android community on Lemmy. Way to go, us!

          • money_loo@lemdro.idEnglish
            93·
            1 year ago

            Honestly, I’m okay with them banning people for being negative, there are SO many places you can go to do that if you want to, especially with all the servers here on Lemmy.

            • JshKlsn@lemmy.mlEnglish
              66·
              1 year ago

              You think it’s okay to ban someone for being critical about a specific Samsung device because a mod is a fanboy of it?

                • ijeff@lemdro.idMEnglish
                  62·
                  1 year ago

                  I’ve looked into it and can confirm /u/JshKlsn was temporarily banned for rude comments directed at others on /r/android. For the record, the mod who actioned it does not use Samsung devices.

          • biscuit@lemdro.idEnglish
            71·
            1 year ago

            Oh I’d love to see exactly how you got banned. Chances are it was for a tad more than just “having a negative opinion about Samsung”.

          • ijeff@lemdro.idMEnglish
            61·
            1 year ago

            Hey there, if you would like to pass me your username on Reddit I’d be happy to take a look for you. We have folks who very much dislike Samsung so that shouldn’t have been an issue - and if it was, it was an oversight.

            • Sterben@lemmy.worldEnglish
              24·
              1 year ago

              My user name on reddit is ST3RB3N666, can you tell me why you permently banned me? I tried to reach you, but you completely ignore me.

              I don’t care about your ban, but at least tell me why did you ban me?

              EDIT: as expected, no response.

              • ijeff@lemdro.idMEnglish
                71·
                1 year ago

                Strange. I only received a notification for this reply when you edited it just now. Not sure if it’s due to the recent lemmy.world outage. I’m on my way to the office at the moment but will definitely take a look this afternoon.

                Edit: I’ve taken a look. It appears you were banned for spam.

                • You commented “Thank, I will definitely think about it in the future” as the first response to a spam bot post advertising third-party MagSafe accessories. This was your first comment on /r/Android.
                • Your follow-up message to modmail followed the same format as typical spam accounts and was archived.
                • 13 days ago, you randomly sent a mod mail, “fuck you”, which triggered automatic Reddit filtering.
                • Sterben@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  28·
                  1 year ago

                  Of course, after 3 months of no response you deserve “fu#k you”.

                  So you banned me, because I was honestly interested in an accessory, gotcha.

                  Spam? I didn’t read the content policy, but I doubt I violated any rules with only one comment, can you kindly elaborate?

                  This was my PM to you after you banned me. Does it look like a bot? It was just a formal way to communicate, since you are a moderator.

                  Can ask why did you ban me? Spam? Can at least explain or you don’t care? What ever am out

                  Those are my follow up messages, where you muted me for 28 days right after.

                  I m sorry for the “fu#k you”, but you honestly deserved it, since you could take 5 minutes to explain yourself, but you decided to ignore me instead.

                  I was gonna leave the platform anyway, so I decided to flip you off as last act as rebellion 🤣

                  Have a great day and good luck with the instance. 🤙

          • Sterben@lemmy.worldEnglish
            52·
            1 year ago

            Same, got banned for “spam”, even though I am pretty sure I never broke any rules.

            I asked for more reasons then, but they straight up ignore and mute me for 28 days.

            I will never subscribe to anything related to the old reddit mods.

            I am glad I am not the only one thinking this way.

      • ijeff@lemdro.idMEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Hi there, I hope you were able to catch some of the other comments but memes are captured under rule #3:

        Describe images/videos: Please provide an explanation in the self-post body when sharing images or videos. Memes are not allowed.

        Sorry for the late reply, I was away for much of the weekend until yesterday and thought we had gotten a reply out to you. Based on this discussion, we created [email protected] as a compromise between folks who want memes and those who do not. We’ve been aiming to find a balance between being more lenient during this period while also remaining responsive to user reports, which we did receive for yours.

        You can typically find an explanation of the removal reasons in the modlog (when accessed from the community sidebar). Unfortunately, Lemmy doesn’t seem to be handling user notifications too well but hopefully this improves in the near future.

        Edit: Apologies for the multiple posts. App went haywire on me… Lemmy growing pains!

      • Thteven@lemmy.worldEnglish
        155·
        1 year ago

        This is exactly the kind of shit I was worried about when people were talking about attracting reddit mods to Lemmy.

      • [email protected]@kerala.partyEnglish
        72·
        1 year ago

        I feel bad for you. Deleting a post which has already has a around 250 points, and around 60 comments SMH. Either delete them early or write a comment warning.

        • Aftermath6187@vlemmy.netEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          My points keep getting reset every couple of days, so I don’t care too much about that. I think I was making a valid point though. Obviously people were pretty engaged with it.

          Cool thing about lemmy is if these mods want to be jerks, I’ll just go to another android community on another instance.

    • ijeff@lemdro.idMEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for this feedback! Based on this discussion, we’ve created [email protected] as a compromise between folks who want memes and those who do not. Hope that helps! We’ve definitely been aiming to be a bit more lenient as things take shape while trying to also be responsive to user reporting.

      Always happy to check in again for a pulse check. Hopefully Lemmy can implement a better way to let directly notify folks when a post is removed, but in the meantime everyone can access the modlog from the community sidebar. Please let me know if not!

  • Clipboards@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

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

    Cheers!!

    • User17w9a@lemdro.idEnglish
      4·
      1 year 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·
        1 year 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·
        1 year ago

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

      • ayyndrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year 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

  • TheTechNerd789@lemdro.idEnglish
    7·
    1 year 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·
      1 year 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.

  • henfredemars@lemdro.idEnglish
    6·
    1 year 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.

  • gelberhut@feddit.deEnglish
    72·
    1 year ago

    Hm. Checked few of listed communities - only automated link posts to the related news sites… Not exactly what I would expect from a community.

    • Thteven@lemmy.worldEnglish
      102·
      1 year ago

      They’re shooting themselves in the foot by fracturing the conversations like that if you ask me. If there were a million subscribers here it would be a different story but the sub is still growing and it’s just making it harder to talk to people.

    • ijeff@lemdro.idMEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Unfortunately none of it is automated. They’re fresh ones and we are working on bringing over more of the Reddit counterparts.

      • gelberhut@feddit.deEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        :) Ok, not yet automated. But most of these communities look like an RSS feeds from the news sites. May be interesting for people who want to have everything in one place, but I’m more interested in more personal posts.

  • darrsil@lemdro.idEnglish
    3·
    1 year 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.

  • FutileRecipe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year 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
        31·
        1 year 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.