Fedibridge

I've come across someone from India who is looking for an instance recommendation, and I'm not sure what to recommend. Any suggestions?

Blaze's US/EU recommendations are a good rule of thumb, but I think It might be useful to compile a more detailed list of country recommendations, or at least one for each continent.

A redditor is looking for Reddit alternatives for the following subjects:

• Pop culture/fandom discussions and recommendations (Ex: Avatar: TLA, Star Wars, Star Trek, Mass Effect, Ghibli, Muppets etc.)
• Any and all subjects involving history.
• Alternate history discussions
• Movie, tv, anime, books, comic, video game, and theatre recommendations
• Discussions and news with fellow ABCDesis
• Worldbuilding and in-depth discussions about pop culture franchises (Ex: Mawinstallation, Daystrominstitute, Templin Institute etc.)
• Specualtion on what the future might look like.

EDIT: @[email protected] shared something that might help to circumvent this shit:

Contained in these parentheses is a zero-width joiner: (​)

Basically, add those to whatever you feel that might be filtered out, then remove the parentheses. The content inside the parentheses is invisible, but it screws with regex rules.

As someone else mentioned here, these other centralized platforms often advertise heavily on subreddits like /r/RedditAlternatives, and they do seem to have some people on there. Does anyone know if they are attracting a lot of people or why people prefer to join other centralized sites before joining e.g. Lemmy? Are they a "threat" to the growth of fediverse platforms like Lemmy, Mbin or just experiments that'll fail sooner or later?

• https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1ipe74t/reddit_plans_to_lock_some_content_behind_a/mcrggpj/

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r/Lemmy has a single moderator, u/MarcellusDrum.

r/RedditAlternatives has a few:

• u/ryan_II
• u/RedditWater7
• u/RedditLiquid8
• u/Madbrad200
• u/Dukkani
• u/Zakku_Rakusihi

Are any of them active on Lemmy? These subreddits are proving to be key spaces for onboarding new users to Lemmy. Might it be prudent to establish good relationships with these people?

None of them seem to be particularly active in the above communities. It would be nice if they could swap out some of the pinned threads, many of which contain outdated information.

Was replying to a now-deleted post in which the poster asked for feedback on the contents and phrasing of a message they had used to promote Lemmy on Reddit. As the crux of my reply was recommending an instance other than lemmy.world to send new users to, I thought I'd rework it as a post of my own.

While @[email protected] came up with good criterion for determining which instances should be recommended to newcomers, it seems that neither sopuli.xyz nor discuss.online has native third-party frontend support, something that may increase the likelihood that new users stick around. Although I don't think Mlmym should be recommended—despite being an easy switch for users of the old Reddit interface—due to it lacking recent updates, thus likely to break if not updated for Lemmy 1.0, other third-party frontends such as Alexandrite, Voyager, Tesseract, and Photon may serve new users better than Lemmy's default user interface.

Although country-specific, lemmy.ca is arguably the best option in this regard, supporting all five third-party frontends listed above. It's also one of the longest-running instances, dating to June 2021, and is defederated from lemmygrad, hexbear, and other instances on the Fediseer censure list.

If a non-country specific instance is preferred, I also went through the instance list further to find another general purpose instance with a neutral name, sufficient defederation list, and support for multiple third-party instances. Endlesstalk.org is the next most active instance to meet those criteria, with support for Mlmym, Alexandrite, and Voyager.

Thread on /r/RedditAlternatives: https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1ipfaz0/with_reddit_announcing_paywalled_subreddits_this/

Kind of answers the suggestion I had a while ago ( https://lemmyverse.link/lemm.ee/post/52588852 ) to have instances that would hide political communities from the All feed to be more welcoming to new joiners.

If a generalist instance implemented a similar hide list, it could become the one recommendation for new joiners, at it would avoid overwhelming them with politics.

From the OOP:

Upvote RSS is a self-hosted project I've been working on that generates RSS feeds from social aggregation websites like Reddit, Lemmy, and Hacker News. You can subscribe to subreddits, Lemmy communities, and Hacker News while filtering to only the top posts. It will embed Reddit post media (videos, images, galleries), and you can optionally include parsed article content, AI-generated summaries, top comments, and more. Here are some of the features:

• Supports subreddits, Hacker News, Lemmy communities, and more to come
• Configurable filtering to dial in the right number of posts per day in your feed reader
• Embedded post media: videos, galleries, images
• Parsers to extract clean content and add featured images
• AI article summaries
• Estimated reading time, score, and permalinks to the original post
• Top comments
• NSFW filtering/blurring (Reddit only)
• Custom Reddit domain
• Light/dark mode for feed previews

Here's the GitHub link if you'd like to give it a spin:

https://github.com/johnwarne/upvote-rss

And the preview website (not all options are available here):

https://www.upvote-rss.com/

The meme can also be found on [email protected]

I have a small blog on Lemmy (shoutout lemmy.ml/c/dginovker) - And I've decided to crosspost relevant submissions onto Reddit.

Exhibit A for people who want to (not) brigade https://old.reddit.com/r/leetcode/comments/1impdhc/why_im_quitting_leetcode_1234_day_streak/?

Cross posting this here for visibility as it's easy to not see the edit. They are adding thoughts and resources to the post as they evolve so maybe keep an eye out for future edits.

I think the questions they have are very reasonable & they have welcomed cis people to discuss on the post (but not elsewhere on the subreddit)

I'm new to Lemmy and doing what I can. Long time member of the subreddit. Maybe some of you all are better than me at discussing these topics with them?

Thank you all for your help so far 🫶