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44 points

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).

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13 points

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.

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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)

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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, !askandroid@lemdro.id 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!

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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.

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34 points

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.

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Thanks for this feedback! Based on this discussion, we’ve created !androidmemes@lemdro.id 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!

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26 points

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

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28 points

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.

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17 points

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!

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8 points

I think they just removed my post. I don’t think it broke any rules?

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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 !androidmemes@lemdro.id 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!

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5 points

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.

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7 points

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.

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

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16 points

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

Cheers!!

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4 points

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.

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5 points

@User17w9a @Clipboards I disagree. Are you looking at all communities or just lemmy.world? As long as you are looking across the fediverse there are plenty, in fact, way more than reddit.

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

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3 points

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

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13 points

you used URLs for your subreddit links but fwiw you can make links clickable for users from other servers by linking to (/c/community@serv.er)

like this

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Links should be clickable for anyone since 0.18

If you can’t click those links then your client is at fault

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6 points

the ones in the op are web links

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7 points

Ah, why would they do that? You don’t have to link anything. !sony@lemdro.id - no formatting

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I’m a bit late replying to this but that was actually a wefwef bug. The links are in fact the ones automatically generated by LemmyUI when typing !android@lemdro.id (it provides a popup with autocomplete options).

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9 points

Can we get a fairphone one?

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4 points

I would love to follow a fairphone community

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Content which benefits the community (news, rumours, and discussions) is generally allowed and is valued over content which benefits only the individual (technical questions, help buying/selling, rants, self-promotion, etc.) which will be removed if it’s in violation of the rules.


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