Furry Chat

I find it very odd that the furry community didn’t transition to Lemmy, since they’re everywhere on Mastodon and furries are always there first for the new/techy/left-leaning things. Whenever reddit does the next user-hostile thing we’ll be more prepared.

Lemmy, especially lemmy.world was very rough the first few weeks. Constant downtime and stale posts. There are still a lot of stale posts. as for Mastodon, I actually think I see more talk about bluesky these days than Mastodon. That's a different can of worms. Federated sites are both a blessing and a Curse. With reddit, there is one site and you get everything and one experience. The fediverse can be quite confusing. Your "all" is different for each instance. If your on Yiffit, you can't brows local on pawb. If you don't have an account on pawb, but have one on yiffit, its hard to find all the content as not all communities are listed. So before you can even interact you need to know that you have to join an instance, and you have to decide which one to join. And even then, you might have multiple accounts across instances just to see everything.

On reddit you’d almost always see a single comment (probably a stupid pun or something) with 90k upvotes and 700 replies underneath, and nothing else in the thread would get any attention.

On the other side, sometimes that top comment is top for a reason. Although nothing here is big enough to cause good info to drop off... yet.

Yiffit got defederated from lemmy.ml which is really brutal since there’s a lot of big communities there.

We need more fine-grained defederation procedures, like defederating from specific communities so that users don’t get swept up in the mix.

I don't know much about AP, but yea, the ability to chose to defederate from communities, instances, or their users, or any combination thereof, would probably be a net positive change. Although it was my original understanding that defederation was a one way thing, yiffit would still get data, just couldn't send. I guess that's not how it actually works.

Communities also need to spread out onto more servers

I've generally noticed the same thing, the network effect and fediverse confusion is quite a strong force.

We also need more posts/topics, and I’m not very good at this part.

I'm doing what I can. A few things combined to make me decide to start participating. I have been doing 2 posts a week and commenting when something comes to mind.

I don’t know where to find OC/new content to x-post to Lemmy

The gallary sites, twitter are a good place. If your talking about more general, there are some interesting mailing lists, hackernews, blogs. If you find it interesting, someone else will too.

We have many people with a lot of knowledge ready to comment on posts, but the double-edged sword is that everyone already knows everything and no one needs any help.

I think the bigger issues are that its just harder to find the niche and ask communities [email protected]. Also some of them just went to matrix. You still have to deal with the network effect of reddit, and a lot of those communities are still active there.