The Picard Maneuver

SNES - I love 16bit pixel art.

Is this arguably anticompetitive and illegal?

It’s like a big mall, and it doesn’t really matter which store you enter through.

Why did I click on this?

Yeah, and I’ve also found that you don’t have to be active on a post within the first hour for anyone to see your comment. People comment and have their comments seen days after, because there seems to be a lot of variety in how people sort their feeds here.

I created the XCOM community on lemmy.world, but I haven’t had to mod a single thing yet, because it’s slow (only 300-something subscribers, and mostly me posting).

I might look into it. The only catch is that I’m usually just checking lemmy on my phone, and I haven’t looked into how many apps have the ability to mod stuff.

If you build it, they will come.

It’s the reason I’ve been motivated to post as much as I do, both in broader communities and a handful of niche ones that I want to see grow.

If you’ve thought about posting/commenting but just haven’t yet, take the plunge! I never used to post on reddit at all, and I’ve been pretty active since joining Lemmy.

Came from reddit like many others. I had been unhappy with the artificial and corporate-sterile feel of reddit for a while. And second to that, the way subreddits were set up made it rife with powermod agendas and no good alternatives to escape them.

I much prefer the “interconnected islands” of lemmy that reduces the ability of anyone to advertise, astroturf, or have ownership of the whole system. It feels looser and puts more control back in the hands of users, which is refreshing.

I’ll hop into inactive communities for things that interest me, and after posting for a bit, others eventually show up and start commenting/posting too.

If you build it, they will come!

I post and comment a lot, and it frequently leads to me having like 40-50 messages in my inbox if I don’t check for a few hours. I’ve even noticed a significant uptick lately, which is encouraging.

Liftoff is fantastic. I think updates are slow, but it’s in a good place.

Yeah, it feels like gaming communities everywhere on the internet can be so toxic.

I’ve had better luck with comms focused on individual games, but their content is slow right now.

Haha, I’m glad! I know I post a lot of memes in general, but Risa is by far my favorite community on lemmy. The more people that get into Star Trek, the better, I say!

I made one of my favorite niche communities (on my Lemmy.world account), for the XCOM games. And I try to drop memes in a few other super niche communities that I’m interested in every so often.

Growth is slow, but a handful of very active users can contribute more than you’d think.

We can even have communities on similar topics with different vibes, moderating styles, etc. It’s great.

Yeah, I never feel like I’m commenting/posting into the void. By my surprise, it has actually encouraged me to post more, which isn’t something I expected when I joined Lemmy, and definitely not something I ever did on reddit.

It’s totally replaced reddit for me. Every community I’m interested is smaller than I’m used to, but much more positive. It’s cool even seeing a lot of the same names occasionally as I navigate around the site.

I hope it keeps this level of quality as it grows.

I think some of them got established before the recent reddit exodus, so it kind of guided the political leaning.

Fair enough.

I guess I just think of the community as the “tag” for posts on this style of site, which is a setup that I personally prefer over sites like mastodon/twitter that rely on less consistent individual post tags.

I think it makes more sense to tag communities for this style of site rather than having users attach them to every single post.

That way, we would even have a simple method to “link” related communities, which I bet has been the #1 feedback request.