Coelacanth

I agree with this take. The crawler bots that mindlessly replicate Reddit content (but without the interactivity of the comment section) are terrible. This just makes it easier to share stuff on Lemmy for the people who still haven’t fully left Reddit. It’s still a human who has actively registered on Lemmy seeing content they want to share with others on here, only now having a tool to do so easier.

What exactly is the harm?

Scaled is different, as I understand it it’s a re-weighing of votes proportional to the size of a community to help promote smaller communities.

They won’t all stick. That’s just the nature of things, no site/game/service/what-have-you boasts a 100% retention rate. Hell, not even heroin does. But with every MAU bump, some amount of them do stick around, and with every such increase to the baseline MAUs we get closer to critical mass.

No, that would show posts made on your local instance sorted by Hot. Not global posts but sorted by what’s voted Hot by your instance’s users.

I don’t think changing the default behaviour of the All feed is wise, but adding a sorting option like Hot(Local) or something to the All feed to see what is trending in terms of votes from your local instance could be interesting for medium sized instances. But for any small or tiny instance this would be essentially worthless so it would have to be optional.

It’s possible that early adopters (ie: the current Lemmy population) as a population subset don’t fully conform to the 90-9-1 rule.

Even though 50k is a nice number of MAUs and allows for active discussion in the bigger communities, it’s still not enough to fuel niche communities - at least presuming the 90-9-1 rule applies even to early adopters such as us. While I agree that discoverability could be a lot better, I think what’s holding back the smaller communities right now is lacking critical mass more than anything else.

Welcome! It’s a great, homely place that still feels a little bit like the old internet.

In addition to the already mentioned Lemmyverse, two other great ways of finding active communities are !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl

Is there a mobile app yet? I made an account because I was interested in the new Feeds feature, but I spend 100% of my time on the Threadiverse using my phone.

Good to know, thanks! I definitely reported some of the “Nicole” spam, but I had no idea it was causing trouble!