How do you even create one? When I'm trying to make one and pick the communities I can't move to the next step. When moving back using my phone's navigation button it takes me out from the creator and loses the data.
Edit: I figured it out. Kinda confusing behavior tbh.
Makes me sad that it's not open source but I will try it in a moment. The link you gave me doesn't provide a download so I'm grabbing the app from github.
Eeeeh, does this post really fit this community?
Also I use it for pretty much any game I'm interested in. It's a great tool!
Many of the subreddits started late and/or quit the strike early too.
Reddthat seems like the better fit. I didn't knew this instance had downvotes disabled, cool. It's not something that would fit on blahaj imo because it's just shitposting unrelated to LGBT stuff.
That said I'm waiting for post scheduling feature before I commit to posting lots of stuff because the lemmy schedule site feels very unpleasant to use to me and I want something native. The lemmy v1 is still few months off so it will be a while. I'm also unsure if creating a new community would make sense because it's a very niche and old meme so I would be the only one that posts things there from time to time. Someone would need to be willing to mod that as well and it wouldn't be me. I don't think it's worth the trouble to set things up anew tbh. :x
1.) I believe that the discovery is bad and this is why I'm working on [email protected] where the goal is to index the communities for people to discover something to follow even if they weren't looking for that specifically. I plan to push a huge update to it somewhere next month.
I think that some community (users, not mods) managed recommendation system where you recommend related communities for you to display on the sidebar would be great too. But that's just an another idea that would never see the light of the day in development. Some communities have sidebars where mods link to related communities but it's really not flexible enough to link communities to each other easily.
2.) Missing enough people is definitely the biggest problem there because even if people knew about the communities someone still needs to populate them and ideally organically instead of it being 1-2 chronic posters.
3.) Revisiting expectations is definitely needed but generalising communities too much is not ideal because if I want to follow one thing but not the other then I would be stuck with lots of content I don't care about. There needs to be some middle ground on that. I have a few imaginary communities on themes I enjoy and mod a few others to help out with moderation. I don't want them to be merged into one blob without a theme going on. This is also why I and the other mod refused to move our communities to [email protected] which doesn't focus on our preferred niches. But depending on how post tags get implemented in lemmy I would be willing to move to your community. But my requirements would be high like being able to subscribe to only posts from a specific community with specific tags and being able to easily filter posts in community view. Also blacklisting. Basically allowing you to have things in one community but being able to interact with posts as if they were separate ones.
4.) I also think that mod tools and community settings to protect the community and give it direction are severely lacking. For example something like this: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5360
5.) Not being able to create your own custom feeds is also a massive problem because you can't split your feed into types like memes/news/discussions/meta etc. Low traffic communities get buried in your feed when you subscribe to them making things bad for the growth. And because everything is mixed together it makes things a bit less pleasant to browse as well. If I could use different feeds for different moods I would definitely interact with lemmy and content I like more because it would be easily available.
And some other issues that I'm not remembering right now.
Ah, would make sense. I will edit the comment later to include the communities you mentioned directly there then.
I would be willing to do it if the community was on the instance with disabled downvotes otherwise nah.
I will look forward to them then! :D
I didn't ask for recommendations. I just shared what I miss and lemmy in no way will replace them for me due to low traffic like I mentioned at the top of my comment. I know those communities exist. I'm working on indexing communities for [email protected] after all although it's behind the scenes so the current form isn't representative of what I know of.
I wouldn't recommend creating communities for the sake of creating them unless you can commit to posting and moderating them.
To quit and save I need to tap on the screen edge to the left or right of the input field for the community name. When I do that it just closes the creation window with no notification or anything so the feedback and letting users know how to continue could be better. To figure out how to create a feed I had to spam click on every part of the screen for some while until I figured out how to quit while saving. But it took a while to realise that quitting in this way was saving the feed too because I needed to stumble upon the section where the feeds are shown because they aren't on the sidebar but in their own page. After finding out a bunch of created sections and some additional experimenting I figured out how this works. As for when I go back using phone's navigation it warns me the unsaved changes will be lost so it's ok in that regard. I don't think I remember seeing any X button? Overall now that I know how this works everything's fine but it was really confusing to figure it out as a new user. Also huge thanks for the app, there's so much cool advanced functionality that I would never expect from an app. History? Searching for words in a thread? Filtering by post type? So cool! And regarding the post type, is it possible to set it up for each feed separately or is it a global app setting? For example to create a feed of only images and a feed of only text posts. I'm still figuring the app out and idk what's possible yet. Thanks for the app again! <3
Edit: The feeds show on the sidebar. In that case I must have misremembered that part somehow. Maybe I checked it a few times before I created those few feeds when troubleshooting.