My mom buys the grocery store potted orchids all the time. When their bloom dies, she throws them in (what I’ve dubbed) the “orchid graveyard”. It’s just a spot in and around the large oak in her yard. Sure enough every year they rebloom. I doubt they all survive but the ones that do look amazing.

I registered at lemmy.ml, on 6/9. Wrote a sentence or 2 per question. Never heard anything back by email but I tried logging in the next day and I was in. Either they aren’t sending emails or something is broken with the mail flow. Either way took me less than 5 minutes to say I wasn’t a complete fuck and was looking to move away from Reddit. Actually this response might be longer than what I wrote to register lol

Thank god for the red circle, I almost missed it.

Huh - I had not even considered downvotes in other instances… Yeah that seems problematic. Maybe rather than defederating downvotes, there could be a way to differentiate between local and global up/downvotes.

Malicious instances would need to be blocked by the instance you are registered to.

As for multiple accounts - couldn’t the same thing be done on reddit? Just make a bunch of alts and self-inflate your own posts/comments.

These issues are as old as the internet and can only be mitigated, not prevented.

Noticeably faster! Thank you.

I’m not saying you’re wrong - I don’t know the truth. But your source is literally: “Trust me, bro.”

I’m already more active in 2 days of Lemmy than I was in 5 years on Reddit. Loving this community.

I hear ya. For us more technically inclined folk, it’s an inconvenience. For more layman folk, it’s completely unapproachable.

Ok? Your point? It’s still more than one community.

It’s gonna be more important than ever to appear active and engaging if we want people to convert from Reddit. It’s not going to look enticing if you need to potentially look around at multiple subs to see the content that used to be on one.

You’re not wrong about the load.

Until that’s implemented (which is great btw, didn’t know that was coming) - my concern is Reddit refugees will see ghost town communities and just head back to Reddit. If we try getting our small community to appear more united, it’ll encourage others to ditch Reddit all together.

As for the multi-lemmy feature - is that gonna be something we can just one click subscribe to? Or we’ll need to build out the multi ourselves? If the latter, then the concern about new users seeing ghost towns still stands.

It’s nice to have backups but doesn’t this just fracture the already small lemmy piracy community even more? Maybe running it as a mirror without the possibility to engage would be better.

I hope they make a Fucks version soon.

Just deleted my 5yo account. But it wasn’t that hard since I mostly lurked.