It seems like any platform that features link aggregation is soon overrun by bots and self-promoters trying to drive traffic, and pages and pages of link posts versus pages and pages of people talking.
Are there any lemmy instances or other defederated networks that focus on Q&A, niche communities, and people conversing, instead?
I always thought there was no big difference between link aggregators and forums, and that the first is more an extension of the other, at least it felt like it in my experience. What would you say really sets them apart?
More policy and culture than implementation. Rarely see pages of links to mass media sites on your average phpBB, though.
This thread is a great example of the big downside of being on a smaller instance: OP was seemingly unaware and unable to subscribe to many cool communities and was stuck with the “defaults”.
Perhaps admins and mods of smaller instances could be doing more to educate their users about how to find stuff in the wider Threadiverse?
When we had the big migration last year everyone quickly learned how to search for a community, how you had to do it twice for it to show up etc. But now it’s no longer a common topic of conversation so newer users don’t realise, and to make matters worse every single mobile app seems to handle search differently.
Is there some kind of “so, you’re on a small instance, here’s what that means” type of resource already hanging around somewhere?
(OP, get yourself on lemmyverse.net/communities)
Is there some kind of “so, you’re on a small instance,
Captain America advisors on the subject of the Fediverse? Now that would be on-point.
Mastodon is much more this way than Lemmy, in my experience. I honestly don’t know too many Lemmy communities that are that way, but kbin / mbin will let you interact with Mastodon users on a chat basis in addition to Lemmy communities.
It’s pretty heavily curated, but it’s where I go for non-bot discussion on any variety of topics. Sorted hierarchically, and they keep out the riff raff pretty actively.
I originally wanted to join tildes, but I never could get an invite. so I just kinda abandoned it and moved to lemmy instead.
they seem to go more with a walled garden approach and I’m not sure I’m comfortable with that kind of environment. but I’m sure it works well for those who participate.
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Some forums are still reasonably active. I use Whirlpool fairly regularly. Mostly tech related, but has lots of other sections too.
https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/
If you search around you can find others.
The GameFAQs boards are still quite active as well, as long as you’re willing to put up with neckbeards and bronies.
I guess this feature request would help you?
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3809
So communities could disallow link posts
The opposite of that request, yes.
sorry what do you mean?
the feature request is suggesting the ability to disallow link posts, as well as the ability to disallow text posts
Ability to disallow certain kinds of posts (text posts/link posts) in specific communities
Currently it is not possible to disallow using the text field or URL field in specific communities.
Similarly one could imagine a setting to disallow using the URL field, for example in a conversation-only community.
which did you want?
Ah, I read the requestor as wanting to disallow body text.
Honestly do you have any examples of this happening here on Lemmy? Lemmy is not Reddit.
nodebb and discourse are working on activitypub support. See https://crag.social/@devnull/111732273308478221
You can try us if you are interested hilariouschaos.com
I heard that this is the new project from exploding-heads, is it correct?
No.
HC is its own thing, and its purpose is for fun. Whatever fun means to you as long as it’s not illegal.
The primary reason HC was created is for the purpose of having fun.
For some, posting political shit is ‘fun’, so you will see some political posts.
We are pretty strongly adamant about not having a political bias in our instances.
So we don’t care if you post left or right shit. Upvotes and down votes are there for a reason and our community can decide what they like and don’t like with those functions.
We do not take posts down or ban users based on our own personal ideologies.
There will be no favoring of either political side. Right and left are allowed.
I think this is why people have that assumption.
It is. It has the same people on it from exploding-heads and is currently linked to nostr.
Do we have users from exploding heads? Yes, we do. we also have users from NOSTR who were invited and a few from reddit.
I’m not sure why you are making assumptions about our instances when you’re not even an admin there or involved in any way, shape, or from.
HC is not exploding-heads number 2, or meant to be a eh replacement. HC was created for the purpose of having fun, hanging out, fucking around and posting content you make, without having to deal with lemmy drama.
We are not, eh we do not plan to be, or to federate,ever So, I am sorry if this disappoints you.
We welcome both left and right, leaning people. Right now, we just so happen to have more right and center ppl.
Leftists and centrists are welcomed to join. Our core value is not giving a shit which side you’re on. Although we allow political stuff from both sides, HC was not, and is not a political movement.
I’m sure you not interested along with many others and that’s fine.
I will address anyone making this assumption bc its incorrect.
