You’d think niche communities… niche servers… what a match, right? My communities were deleted or removed from all three Lemmy servers, even after being approved.
This was confusing to me. I’ve literally never heard of this happening. New communities are formed every day. Surely there much be some way to explain the unknown-to-me world this man experienced, where the admins started up their server just rubbing their hands together waiting for someone to try to start a community so they can DELETE IT! And then run off into the night, howling with laughter.
We were migrating two weeks worth of content (25-30 posts) just like we said we would do in our application. They suggested a third server (can’t find the name/application now) which we applied to, got approved on, and let us post for two days before deleting us.
A haaaaa. The critical issue.
I’ve formed a few different communities on Lemmy. Only one was going to post-spam like this, and I talked with people on the server to make sure it wouldn’t be an issue, and when it was, I found another place for my thing and moved it there instead. Everyone’s happy. No one had to delete anything, and no one took any kind of attitude like their response was “unwelcoming.” We just worked it out. Honestly all this would have taken would have been just not migrating the previous posts over, and creating a fresh community instead. Boom. Everyone’s happy.
This attitude “YO YOU BETTER FIGURE IT OUT FOR ME OTHERWISE I WON’T BLESS YOUR NETWORK WITH MY PRESENCE.” Dude Lemmy admins are not your parents. It’s a culture of people who work together. Just talk to them, work something out, don’t come in with what you want to do as your list of demands, and then if it doesn’t make sense storm off in a huff demanding better service in the future.
Migrating posts over seems reasonable to me. If you want to migrate people, you got to migrate content and lemmy is bereft of content.
Migrating posts over seems reasonable to me
What? No it doesn’t. To someone unfamiliar with Lemmy, and expecting it to be like Reddit where /r/all/new is somewhere only the insane or curious would ever visit, sure; it makes total sense. To someone who understands how Lemmy operates and how a lot of people actually use the per-instance “all” feed because it develops a certain per-instance vibe that they like and want to be a part of and don’t want crapped up with spammy content, it sounds obnoxious.
lemmy is bereft of content
No it isn’t.
What? No it doesn’t.
A lot of the value of subs, especially technical subs, is their backlog of content, usually technical help etc. That doesn’t sound like what this person was doing though. They were just trying to get the initial recent content over. Which you can say “No it doesn’t make sense” and I can say “I think it make senses” all day until we’re blue in the face.
No it isn’t.
Astounding rhetoric.
I have spent as much time as I feel like investing, trying to explain how I see it. Some other people have tried too. You can decide to read what I wrote if you like, and agree or not; it’s up to you.
So someone scripted post spam in the name of migration and got salty that they were treated like spam. Wouldn’t be surprised if it was through an automated processes during all the intentional spam instances we’re getting.
Very much agree with others here, dude should’ve tried to have a conversation with admins and stop spamming old content.
The dude in question included their intention to move stuff in their application for an account.
Also lack of content is an issue on lemmy right now. We need more people posting.
The dude in question included their intention to move stuff in their application for an account.
Well apparently there was some sort of miscommunication.
Also lack of content is an issue on lemmy right now. We need more people posting.
I don’t agree with this for a couple of reasons. Reddit didn’t go from good to bad because of a lack of people posting. I think I’ll let this comment by the reddit OP speak for itself: “Ultimately, it’s up to the server admin(s) to allow you on their server, and being ‘too corporate’, ‘kind of spammy’ or ‘dry and uninteresting’ is enough of a reason to turn you away.” I have never in my life heard of a community being banned for being dry or uninteresting, so that leaves…
Like I say, I’ve had admins say to me (more than once now that I think about it) that a community would be better placed on a different server. I said ok gotcha and moved it. If it’s unanimous among server admins that your stuff doesn’t belong on their instance, that’s absolutely a you problem.
He also conveniently refuses to identify the communities he’s trying to migrate, claiming he doesn’t want to draw “negative attention” to them. Honestly it sounds like the system is working as designed, and better than I would have expected.
